Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steps Toward War. As Western analysts see it, several intermediate steps are possible well before the point of full-scale war. The present local clashes, for instance, might be expanded into sudden over-the-border raids aimed at small military or agricultural installations...
...Most Western airlines are unlikely to buy the Soviet SSTs for reasons involving maintenance, operating economics and an unwillingness to rely on Russia for spare parts. Japan Air Lines, however, has signed an agreement with Russia's Aeroflot to share a trans-Siberian Tokyo-Moscow route, on which it will use the Soviet SSTs...
Decline of the Best. As he watches the sun slowly set on Western civilization, Vidal, scribbling his epitaphs in the shape of aphorisms, could hardly glow more brightly. Nothing is beyond his sardonic appreciation: the Kennedys, Tarzan, the 29th Republican Convention, Susan Sontag, pornography...
...never have heard of the Milwaukee Bucks, but they are a basketball team in the Eastern Division of the NBA. In fact, they are the worst basketball team in the NBA--with the exception of the Phoenix Suns in the Western Division...
...Tyler began his diplomatic career as Public Affairs Officer for the American Embassy in Paris. He also served there as Deputy Director and later Director of the Office of Western European Affairs...