Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threw them out, naked, one by one. That is the story, and nobody can deny it." With these words, former Argentine navy Captain Adolfo Francisco Scilingo, 48, spilled one of the dirtiest secrets of the "dirty war" that raged in his country from the mid-1970s through the early '80s. Human-rights workers and relatives of at least 9,000 Argentines who "disappeared" under military rule have long contended that the missing were systematically murdered by troops acting on orders from the ruling generals. But Scilingo is the first ex-officer to echo these charges in public...
...roped wall, which he once did. In 28 years of elective politics, Wilson has lost just one election, the gubernatorial primary in 1978. He has won nine: two for state assemblyman in the '60s, three for mayor of San Diego in the '70s, two for U.S. Senator in the '80s and two for Governor...
...range of cases, pioneering a savvy brand of First Amendment fundamentalism. "Christians from the 1960s on have taken a major beating in the legal arena and have lost a lot of their liberties," argues Mathew Staver, president of the six-year-old Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Florida. "In the '80s we discovered we must enter the mainstream to assert those liberties." Along with a number of school-prayer cases, the Liberty Counsel has advocated free speech in an amicus Supreme Court brief on behalf of the Ku Klux Klan, which wants to erect a cross on the Ohio statehouse grounds...
Search and Destroy is the story of Martin Mirkheim (Lee Stickler), a man of the 80s who finds himself, unfortunately, in the 90s. With the IRS breathing down his neck and bankruptcy looming, he sets off on a nation-spanning, conscience-testing journey to save his financial and spiritual future...
...generation behind his. After so much photo-based figure painting in which the actual scrutiny of the living body, in all its resistant complexity, played no part at all, Kitaj's figural art posed serious questions that American artists, in particular, were unwilling to face in the '70s and '80s...