Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Policy Breakthrough...
Woods said yesterday that the agreement represented a breakthrough for unmarried couples of all sexual orientations...
...Army Group A. But General Erich von Manstein, chief of staff for Army Group A, passionately argued that this would only lead to stalemate in northern France, again just as in 1914. By contrast, a strong armored offensive right through the supposedly impenetrable Ardennes could lead to a breakthrough all the way to the English Channel. The Allied armies would be encircled and cut off; all France would lie open. Manstein's memorandums never reached Hitler, but the two men met at a dinner, and the Fuhrer was so impressed by the general's bold plan that he ordered...
...ability to deal with Poland's economic situation -- quickly. Can the U.S. really afford to let him fail for lack of assistance? It is odd, to say the least, that George Bush appears to have been as comfortable with the Communist status quo as with this historic breakthrough for democracy...
Doctors and advocates for AIDS victims were elated at the breakthrough. Many hoped that the news would motivate people who are at high risk for infection -- homosexual men and intravenous drug users -- to get tested for the disease and seek counseling...