Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WHAT happened last Sunday night was, I imagine, destined to happen at some point in the Chinese pro-democracy movement after the Tiananmen Square Massacre of June...
...pattern continued for months. Something extraordinary would happen in the East -- down would come the barbed wire along the old Iron Curtain, off would go the light in the red star over the parliament building, home would go trainloads of Soviet troops, in would come a non-Communist prime minister -- and the response from Washington was the sound of one hand clapping. There were schoolmarmish homilies about the need to "test" Gorbachev's slogan of new political thinking and complaints about what he had not done for the West lately...
...problems of this society by reaching consensus by all the existing social and political forces in the country. There is always more than one solution for a given problem. The most important element of consensus is that it serves the majority of the people. Nothing should happen that would serve only a part of this society and not the majority...
...year is 1991, and the scene is the beginning of a "crisis game" depicting what might happen in a superpower confrontation. Conceived, produced and anchored by Nightline's Ted Koppel, the one-hour program, The Koppel Report: The Blue X Conspiracy, will be broadcast by ABC on Thursday (Dec. 7) at 10 p.m. (EST). It is the first time that such a televised exercise has featured actual U.S. and Soviet foreign policy and military officials playing the roles of government figures. "I've played simulations against 'red' teams all my professional life," says retired Army Chief of Staff Edward Meyer...
...tanker aircraft stray into Soviet airspace and a U.S. destroyer accidentally ram a Soviet submarine. In the role of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is Admiral William Crowe Jr., who in reality stepped down from that position only the day before the taping. "These things happen," he says...