Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...country. In Iran, Ayatullah Khomeini's chaotic regime now had a Soviet threat on its eastern border as it struggled to cope with rebel autonomists and internal squabbles over what to do with the American hostages. In Egypt, Moscow's audacious conquest of Afghanistan cast a darkening shadow over a summit between President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. In New York City, one Third World country after another rose in the United Nations General Assembly to excoriate the Soviet Union (see following stones...
...Turkey the shadow of the military has never receded very far from politics. Last week it suddenly loomed larger and closer than usual. The country's military leaders issued a stern warning to the politicians to get together and resolve the country's manifold crises-especially its rampant terrorism-before it is too late. The warning was contained in a special memorandum delivered on New Year's Day to President Fahri Korutürk and later broadcast. It was signed by the chief of staff, General Kenan Evren, as well as the commanders of the army, navy...
...Hyde. Among this year's Ins: plain white sheets, Mickey Mouse, new rock, Judith Krantz, squash, grapefruit juice, Jessica Savitch, bright pink lipstick, Oxford shirts, marriage, Paddington Bear, diaphragms, Ansel Adams, cone-heel shoes, Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto heels, Irving Wallace, T shirts, crock pots, Snoopy, cowboy boots, Jane Pauley, nylon undies, open shirts and Mork...
...West and its mores, unforgiving nature, the meanness of small-town men, the sagacity of an oldtime sheriff, the vulnerability of neglected women, are powerful and occasionally lyrical. Describing the half-dead survivors, he writes: "After a while, the thin sound of two men singing poorly came from a shadow thrown by the moon on a canted field of snow, a thin sound rising up into the mountains that jostled imperceptibly around them. They sang to obscure this awful scale of time; they sang to obscure their fear; they sang in defiance; they sang to be worthy of love; they...
...matching Washington's naval and air buildup in the Middle East. It later seemed, however, that apart from any U.S. buildup, Moscow acted primarily to meet a situation in Afghanistan it could no longer effectively control. The Russians apparently decided to make their show of force in the shadow of the Iranian problem, much as they had intervened in Hungary in 1956 while the West was preoccupied with the Suez crisis. Moscow made a Realpolitik decision: Amin would have...