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Word: buttings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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In its unrelenting hostility to Cuba, Nicaragua and Viet Nam, the Bush Administration gives the impression of flying on an automatic pilot that was programmed back in the days when the Soviet Union was still in the business of exporting revolution. Fidel Castro, the Sandinistas and the rulers in Hanoi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

The cold war has been not only a multitrillion-dollar (and ruble) expense but also a grand obsession. It has distorted priorities, distracted attention and preoccupied many of the best and the brightest minds in government, academe and think tanks for nearly two generations. There is a long line of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

The indebtedness and poverty of the Third World threaten the trend of democracy there. The indebtedness of the U.S., both to itself and to foreigners, threatens its prosperity at home and its influence abroad. The consequences of Japan's emergence as an economic superpower could end up dwarfing the current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

Even as he is thanked by the masses, Gorbachev is quietly cursed, only half- jokingly, by some in the foreign-policy elite for having kicked the centerpiece out from under the big top of American diplomacy. All of a sudden, the think tanks and back rooms of the policymaking establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

If Bush can muster "the vision thing," he should apply it to the development of a new internationalism, a new geopolitics that prepares the West, and perhaps the West and East together, to manage the looming problems that will make the chapter now beginning every bit as challenging as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »