Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past eight years. His primary motive was to secure a political environment in which his reforms can survive him. But the diplomatic skills involved were those of an old man who had himself been $ a victim of the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. Somewhere along the way, despite the anguish and humiliation inflicted upon him and his family by Mao and his Red Guards, Deng developed his ideas about revitalizing the economy, permitting a measure of political freedom and, not least, about dealing with political opposition. Culture Minister Zhu described last week's achievement as "a symbol of the maturity...
Beyond the widespread anguish caused by the quake, there was also deep concern in Mexico over the economic implications of the disaster. Already burdened with severe economic problems (see box), the nation was struck a savage blow. "There will be an immense cost," predicted Clemente Ruiz Duran, an economist and former official of Mexico's central bank. Reconstruction must await the end of the effort to rescue survivors. While cranes and heavy earthmoving equipment were scarce, federal and municipal officials moved swiftly after the blow came. The National Defense Secretariat activated a standing plan for just such an emergency, mobilizing...
...offers of outside assistance, the burden as well as the suffering could, of course, be borne only by Mexico's grieving millions. Yet amid all the pain and the anguish caused by the great quake, Mexicans had reason to be proud of the way in which they reacted to the disaster. One of the few uplifting results of last week's tragedy was the determination with which the military, civilian officials and thousands of volunteers pitched in to the agonizing task of seeking signs of life among the rubble and recovering the bodies of those who were beyond help...
...respond publicly to the kidnapers' demands. The President, meanwhile, acknowledged his personal agony. "If those who oversaw this terrible deed sought to torment a father who is President of the republic, they have succeeded," he told an Independence Day gathering in San Salvador. "They have also provoked the anguish of a mother, the despairing tears of small children, the pain of the people and the shock of civilized nations." At week's end his daughter's whereabouts remained a mystery...
...years ago, Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man about violence as a way for black men to assert their existence to themselves: "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish...