President Reagan was lucky in that, during most of his presidency
a. the Iran-Iraq War prevented either country from vexing the United States.
b. Leonid Brezhnev’s senility and death and two geriatric successors kept Soviet leadership tentative and cautious.
c. OPEC fell into disarray and petroleum product prices fell.
d. Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union.
e. all of these choices.
ANS: E
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