Red Army

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The much-ballyhooed faceoff in Lake Placid, N.Y.—hot on the bladed heels of the U.S. team’s flogging by the Red Army at Madison Square Garden—was between amateurs and de-facto professionals: The U.S.S.R. players might have identified themselves as “students” or “soldiers,” but they were in the full-time employ of Soviet hockey.

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Mr. Burke’s chapters on the alliance between the Palestinian groups and West German leftists such as the Red Army Faction are especially strong.

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Since the games were taking place only weeks after Red Army tanks had crushed the Hungarian uprising, the tension at the water polo semifinal between Hungary and the Soviet Union was extreme.

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Rooted in the insula cortex, for instance, is an expectation that others act fairly, which is why Mao Zedong’s Red Army, we are told, was instructed to treat peasants equitably to win popular favor over Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists.

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The former Red Army is in an enfeebled state.

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