Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked for all the world like a Communist version of the old czarist days, when the most fashionable people of European society were entertained in % glorious style at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. There, amid the winter grayness of Moscow, was a mega-gaggle of the most famous Western cultural and scientific notables, appearing about as classy as one can in an avowedly classless society. But their sudden arrival was hardly because of a glitzy jet-set party. Rather, the celebrities were in town for a three-day forum grandly billed as a conference "For a Nuclear-Free World...
...last-minute reprieve was amplified at week's end by another statement from the captors that omitted any new threat of execution. It was one of the few hopeful signs amid what appeared to be a hopeless stalemate in efforts to free any of the 24 foreign hostages in Lebanon. Despite denials, reports persisted that the U.S. and Israel were negotiating through third parties with Shi'ite Muslim terrorists over the release of some or all of the kidnap victims in exchange for the 400 prisoners. As the guessing game continued, pessimism grew about an agreement anytime soon. With rumors...
These tidings came amid the worst possible circumstances. Since the Philadelphia judiciary already had ten vacancies, the suspensions leave the city with nearly a quarter of its bench empty. Even before the suspensions, ( the case backlog in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas had soared from 6,000 to 9,000 in three months. Since new judicial appointments could be delayed by interparty squabbling in the state senate, the situation may get worse before it gets better...
...during World War II and played in the style of one of Hollywood's gritty, black-and-white melodramas of the period. Earlier this season, the same company presented a Mad Max version of Bizet's Carmen by David Pountney that replaced castanets and mantillas with feral children darting amid junked American automobiles. In Paris, Producer Seth Schneidman staged Strauss's Elektra as a dream-theory psychodrama, freely mixing images of Greek antiquity and 19th century Europe...
...Amid the turmoil, the Reagan Administration must try to persuade the new Democratic Congress this week to release the last installment of $100 million in aid that was granted to the contras last year. To win release of the final $40 million, the Administration must assure lawmakers that the current rebel leadership is representative of Nicaragua's democratic opposition, even as two of the movement's three directors are threatening to resign. "As things stand now, we can't certify that the leadership is what it should be," says an Administration official. "It's a very, very serious problem...