Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such scenes of human displacement and despair had become appallingly commonplace in Lebanon in the aftermath of the Israeli blitz. To look into the plight of the civilians who were in the path of the invasion, TIME sent four journalists into the area: Beirut Correspondent Roberto Suro, Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy, Cairo Correspondent Robert C. Wurmstedt and Reporter Leroy Aarons. Their combined report...
...University affiliated Arnold Arboretum, badly in need of stepped up security in the aftermath of a series of recent tapes and assaults on its Jamaica Plain facility, is only the most recent case in point. The Arboretum seems an imminent threat to human life. Yet Harvard again has refused to put aside fiscal caution. The University should swiftly volunteer the $50,000 in funds that Arboretum officials say they need--a gesture not only to improve community relations, but to fill an urgent need...
...nuclear consciousness raisers. Complained Ground Zero Volunteer Kathleen Conkling of her Tulane University classmates in New Orleans: "This campus is apathetic." Less blase were 250 students at Atlanta's Emory University, who rallied on a chilly night to hear an eyewitness account of the Hiroshima bomb's aftermath. In a campus referendum at Brown University in Providence, 96% of the faculty, staff and student body approved a mutual U.S.-Soviet weapons freeze...
...shooting incident and its violent aftermath increased tension between the Palestinians and Israelis at a particularly explosive time. For two months, the security-conscious Israeli government has been discussing plans to launch a strike against the P.L.O. in southern Lebanon. In Israeli eyes, there have been several provocations, including the murder of an Israeli diplomat in Paris, attempts by guerrillas to penetrate the West Bank by way of the Jordan Valley, and an arms buildup by the P.L.O. in southern Lebanon...
Viewers of U.S. network television news and readers of leading newspapers were left unprepared for the most hopeful news from Central America in a long time: the record turnout of 1.4 million voters, more than double what U.S. officials had predicted. In the aftermath, most American news organizations told touching anecdotes about voters who braved bullets, but pointed up only belatedly the fundamental political result: that leftist guerrillas had been discredited, at least for the moment, as a popular force...