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Republican Senator Joseph R McCarthy died in 1957 but the terms McCarthyism and McCarthy's tactics entered the political lexicon to describe witch hunts involving public accusations of disloyalty or subversion without sufficient proof
The words—'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this Wall'—that moved the world would have been edited out from Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech had it not been for the US President's insistence in the face of objections from mandarins
In 1963, crown prince Faisal told US ambassador Parker T Hart that 'after Allah, we trust America' while Saudis were involved in a confrontation with Egypt over Yemen, highlighting the depth of their relationship that has endured
Top Indian and Pakistani military officers shared much affinity in the early years of India and Pakistan as nation-states having trained and served together in the British Indian Army before 1947
Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have invoked nostalgia for Russia and China's imperial past to justify their expansionism
