Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the War of Independence was the victory of a powerful Israeli army over a helpless civilian population. It was not. The moment Israel's independence was announced, the surrounding countries immediately attacked. All of them, except Egypt, remained in a permanent state of war with Israel until the 1990s. The miracle of independence is at once the miracle of survival...
...obsession is Gina Grant. Before Gina came into the picture, we were obsessed (and we still are) with O.J. Simpson. These are the people and the issues that everyone talks about, writes about and with which their thoughts are preoccupied. If these are the "big" issues of the 1990s, then we must be living in a pretty sad time...
...Contrary to the 1960s and 1970s, we do not dig deep into the "why's" and the "how's" of what we feel and what this all means for our society. Are the issues of domestic violence and the strength of the family which dominate our culture in the 1990s comparable in importance to racism and war which dominated our culture years ago? Journalists and the rest of society seem to say no. I disagree...
...journalists and as young people, we have the potential to make the 1990s just as exciting and as historical as the 1960s, not because of O.J. Simpson or Gina Grant, but because we recognize that these two cases are manifestations of concerns and issues much deeper than we are presently willing to concede or explore. With this knowledge, we too can become excited about our society and recover what has been lost by journalism over the past 25 years--passion...
...troubles deepened after disclosures that the spy agency may have had on its payroll a Guatemalan military officer who, critics allege, was responsible for two controversial murders in the early 1990s: one of a U.S. citizen, the other of a guerrilla married to a U.S. citizen. President Clinton ordered a broad investigation into the matter. In an even more troubling development, the FBI began a criminal investigation into the possibility of an ongoing cover...