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Which Way America? :: By Terry James

During the 1976 approach to America's one hundredth birthday, there were dangers to the nation in many directions. Its leader, the bear-like Leonid Brezhnev—with his scowling demeanor and dark, bushy eyebrows narrowed—always seemed to threaten world destruction with nuclear war-dominated headlines.

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During the 1976 approach to America's one hundredth birthday, there were dangers to the nation in many directions.

Its leader, the bear-like Leonid Brezhnev—with his scowling demeanor and dark, bushy eyebrows narrowed—always seemed to threaten world destruction with nuclear war-dominated headlines.

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During the 1976 approach to America's one hundredth birthday, there were dangers to the nation in many directions. Its leader, the bear-like Leonid Brezhnev—with his scowling demeanor and dark, bushy eyebrows narrowed—always seemed to threaten world destruction with nuclear war-dominated headlines. Communism was on the move, despite the ending […] The post.

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