Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...including 41 members of the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.), the black nationalist movement that last week belatedly admitted responsibility for the Pretoria bombing. Mozambique officials, however, reported that only six died in the raid over Maputo, five of them civilians. Correspondents who flew into Mozambique to view the aftermath of the air strike generally agreed. But they also came across black South African refugees, some of whom were apparently A.N.C. members. Said one angry survivor: "They shot us in South Africa, and they are still shooting us here...
...DECADE spanning World War II and its aftermath was one of this country's greatest glories and its greatest shames. Americans mobilized first to protect the free world, and then to reconstruct it. But U.S. leaders also actively waged oppression at home--interning thousands of Japanese-American families--and tacitly accepted it abroad--largely ignoring Nazi atrocities and pardoning some of the perpetrators afterwards...
...form a civilian government was effectively an admission that the generals have failed to bring order to the nation's chaotic political life. Their repressive rule has left Argentina with economic disaster, international notoriety for the scale of its human rights violations and national disgrace in the aftermath of last year's war with Britain over the Falklands. The strike was further evidence of the military government's disarray...
Jamaica: Struggle in the Periphery is Manley's account of those eight years in office. It details from the driver's seat the difficulties in governing a nation in the aftermath of colonialism--the attempt to construct a viable society out of an island of former plantations and fit it into an international community characterized by superpower domination and an economic order designed to keep the little guy down. What emerges is a disturbing image of the United States and a valuable insight into the plight or the Third World...
...often produced inconsistencies in U.S. policy, and rarely has this been more evident than last week. In an address to the American Legion, Ronald Reagan declared that the U.S. "is prepared to take all necessary measures to guarantee the security of Israel's northern borders in the aftermath of the complete withdrawal of the Israeli army...