Word: india
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When George W. Bush was unable to name the leaders of India, Pakistan and Chechnya during a recent radio appearance, he challenged his questioner to name Mexico's foreign minister. Who is Mexico's foreign minister...
...Sandhurst, though, Churchill began to shine. He graduated 20th in a talented class of 130 cadets, and then shipped out to India. In India, Churchill established himself as a national war hero and as an emergent man of letters. He felt the "desire for learning" at age twenty-two, and he gave himself a better education than his peers received from Oxford and Cambridge schoolmasters. He then began to write popular but anonymous war columns for London newspapers. Once he went to the front with the Malakand Field Force, he supplied Londoners with riveting accounts of the battle...
Bush was unable to name the heads of state of four countries of particular importance to U.S. foreign policy--Pakistan, India, Chechnya, and Taiwan--prompting a wave of monologue jokes and whispers about Bush's competency...
They're not the only ones. Russia, Ukraine, Egypt, India and Indonesia are, a CIA expert warns, "especially vulnerable due to their poor Y2K preparation." Nigeria recently reported that up to 80% of its computers--and, more important, 69 of its 80 banks--are not Y2K compliant...
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