Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...card giving their religious affiliation. Although the two main currents of religion are Christian and Muslim, each is a mosaic of supporting and frequently feuding parts. As a result, there are 17 recognized religious groups: five are Muslim, one is Jewish and eleven are Christian (among them Maronite, Greek, Armenian and Syrian Catholics and their Orthodox counterparts...
...sober, dutiful son of Armenian immigrants, Deukmejian began his career as an attorney in Long Beach, grappling his way up in law and politics by means of single-minded hard work more than personality or connections. As state attorney general, Deukmejian proved a tough law-and-order foil to liberal Governor Jerry Brown, pushing hard for California's death penalty. Before then, Deukmejian had served 16 years as a representative in both the state assembly and senate. Married and with three children, Deukmejian is unabashedly square in his habits and style. Weekends, he commutes to his family home...
...cycle of vengeance that would otherwise follow a crime. But between nations there is no comparable agency to prevent historical wounds from festering endlessly. Nothing, except the apology. In an almost miraculous way, it seems capable of binding the wounds. Compare the legacies of the Holocaust and the Armenian massacres of 1915. The postwar German government accepted responsibility for the nation's actions, and offered acknowledgment and reparations to the survivors. The Nazi crime was more vast, more methodical, more successful than the Turks'. Yet it is Armenian terrorists who attack diplomats, embassies and airlines, sometimes demanding...
Kolvenbach has a special interest in these churches. Born in Druten, a small village in east Holland, he went to Lebanon as a missionary in 1958; there he became an expert in Armenian (he is fluent in seven other languages). Kolvenbach later earned a doctorate in Armenian in Paris, spent a year of spiritual study at a Jesuit center in Pomfret, Conn., then returned to Beirut as a professor at St. Joseph's University. He later headed the Jesuits' Middle East province (Lebanon, Syria and Egypt). "Father Kolvenbach is a classic Jesuit," says an official in Rome...
According to Medvedev's unofficial sources in the Soviet Union, supporters of Brezhnev's hand-picked successor, Konstantin Chernenko, counterattacked by floating a rumor that Andropov was not Russian but half Armenian and a quarter Jewish. Since Stalin's death there has been an unwritten Kremlin rule that the party chief must be an ethnic Russian. In Medvedev's view, the tactics used by Chernenko's supporters were mere pinpricks to Andropov, who had gained the crucial support in the Politburo of Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov...