We should not be surprised that this wave of Japan-as-enemy books coincides exactly with the easing of cold-war tensions.

And it would invite a full-scale revival of the bitter and costly cold-war tensions that, after 40 years, had finally begun to recede.

But as cold-war tensions dissolve, so does this country's function as an arbiter of East-West debate.

The pact reduced cold-war tensions and helped pave the way for the unification of Germany.

Killings at the Berlin wall were among the most graphic symbols of cold-war tensions.

By the early 1980's, when cold-war tensions were being revisited, the federal government had all but abandoned its shelter program.

Without this measure, we will be economically unprepared to match the large-scale military cutbacks that easing cold-war tensions requires.

After years of cold-war tensions and suspicion, he declared that the United States would henceforth be known as a "superpower of concern."

The declaration the summit meeting plans to adopt will affirm the central role of the United Nations in preserving peace and security in the world as cold-war tensions disappear.

But the decline of cold-war tension elsewhere has given rise to the opposite hope: that the "cactus curtain" will go the way of the iron curtain.