Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruling made it unlikely that the masterminds of the murders would quickly, if ever, be punished. For that reason, the AFL-CIO last week in Washington revealed details of the killings and their aftermath that had not yet been made public. Two of the victims, Michael Peter Hammer, 42, an agrarian reform specialist, and Lawyer Mark David Pearlman, 36, were in El Salvador on assignment for the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AFL-CIO's Latin-American arm. The third victim, José Rodolfo Viera, 43, was both head of the farmworkers' union and president...
That accident came at a time of both hope and worry as Lebanon groped for a semblance of normality in the aftermath of its repeated disasters. Only hours before the fatal explosion, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel had officially reopened the airport to commercial flights and proclaimed an end to the so-called Green Line that since the 1975-76 civil war had divided the capital into a pre dominantly Muslim West and a Christian East. At a festive Beirut ceremony, complete with Lebanese military bands playing Yankee Doodle, Gemayel called the relinking of the city "a symbol of national unity...
With his book ready for publication, Jimmy Carter reviewed his presidency and its aftermath with TIME Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss and Midwest Bureau Chief Christopher Ogden, who covered the Carter Administration as White House and State Department correspondent. The four-hour interview began in his wood-paneled home-town office just off the main street of Plains, Ga., and concluded on the sunny back patio of his modest brick ranch house a few blocks away. Afterward, Carter went right to work polishing up the inaugural lecture he was to present the next day as a professor at Emory University...
...come from a Palestinian woman grieving for her lost family following the massacre of Arab men, women and children in the Palestinian refugee camps south of Beirut. In fact, the anguished speaker was an Israeli woman in Jerusalem who the night before had watched the television pictures of the aftermath of the killings by the Israeli-backed Lebanese Christian militiamen. In Lebanon, even as Amin Gemayel was inaugurated as the new President in the place of his slain brother Bashir, the counting of the corpses in the camps continued. In Israel, the slayings and the Israeli government's complicity...
...photographs are becoming a sort of genre of the late 20th century: the massacre shots. We see the crumpled litter of bodies, the familiar, companionably mounded flesh reposing on the bare dirt in the sun in a stunned fatal sprawl. The inarticulate carrion aftermath. We have seen them in Viet Nam and El Salvador and Uganda and Rhodesia and God knows where. My Lai is the primordial scene of the type. The same evil black bats burst flapping out of the pictures, into the brain, and each time the mind flinches and contracts and sickens and grieves for a moment...