Word: aftermath
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...formed its military wing in 1961. Last week's hangings were the first since 1979, however, when ANC Member Solomon Mahlangu was executed for his role in a Johannesburg gunfight in which two whites were killed. The executions emphasize South Africa's hard antiterrorism line in the aftermath of an ANC bomb attack on air force headquarters in Pretoria last month. The blast killed 19 people and injured...
...solidarity. "Their heritage was in their hearts," he says, munching dates and fiddling with worry beads. "But they kept it in the closet." The recent immigrants, displaced by the 1975-76 Lebanese civil war and its aftermath, tend to be Moslem rather than Christian. Says Vicki Tamoush of the National Association of Arab Americans: "Among these people, there is a much greater effort to instill a sense of Arabism in their children...
...aftermath of the Brentwood tragedy follows a well-established and increasingly worrisome pattern in civil law: lawsuits aimed at wealthy or well-insured third parties rather than the people directly responsible for harmful acts. Says Professor Gary Schwartz of U.C.L.A.'s law school: "Robbers and muggers do not have liability insurance, and they do not have assets. The job of the lawyer is not simply to find the negligent party but the negligent solvent party." Russell Moran, editor of the New York Jury Verdict Reporter, puts it more bluntly: "A good lawyer will try to find anyone in gunshot...
...aftermath of the whole saga, observers of Eastern European affairs remain split about the implications of Harvard's invitation to Walesa. Some argue that the gesture, though fruitless, carried symbolic significance. "I think it's a very good thing Harvard invited him," says Jeri Laber, executive director of the Helsinki Watch Committee, a prominent human rights monitoring group. "It's important that there be as much support in the West as possible for anyone who's the subject of as much harassment as he is. The more invitations like this the better...
...wonder that you've turned inward," remarked the cartoonist, noting that today's youth has stood in the shadow of the more politically active generation of the '60s left to weather the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate...