Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four Cardinals, Albert Decourtray of Lyon, to issue his own declaration that the 1987 agreement must be honored. The demonstrations and hostile climate "cannot outweigh the accord," he asserted. Pope John Paul II has so far declined to intervene openly in a local Polish church matter, but behind Decourtray's unequivocating statement may be glimpsed a papal hand...
...increased drama in the exhibits themselves, the real revolution is going on behind the scenes and out in the wild, where a state of emergency exists. To begin with, most zoos no longer take animals from the jungle; they grow their own. About 90% of the mammals and 75% of the birds now in U.S. zoos were bred in captivity, and some are even being carefully reintroduced to their native environs. At the same time, zoo-affiliated organizations like Wildlife Conservation International are working to save whole habitats in 38 countries in Africa, Asia and South America and to reduce...
From weak-kneed Terrence Ascher, seeking his father's approval, to Rafael Mendoza, who is tired of America's condescending attitude towards his people, to Marine Eric Gustafson, smuggly certain that only U.S. intervention can save the incompetent Contras, Brinkley's characters are intended to reveal the psychological factors behind a government scandal...
With the cost of the relief operation mounting, Ankara has been pressing Bulgaria to allow ethnic Turks to dispose of their property before departing and to take their liquid assets with them. So far, the departing Turks have had to leave their homes and most of their belongings behind. According to their new Bulgarian passports, they are merely going on vacation. Not so, says Miemin Durmusev, whom the Bulgarians renamed Ana Ivanovna Dimitrova. "We're never going back...
Oxford scholar Geza Vermes calls it "the academic scandal par excellence of the 20th century." Columbia University's Morton Smith protests that there is "no justification" for it. Fumes California State's Robert Eisenman: "We are tired of being treated contemptuously." Behind the scenes, scholars are exchanging bitter private letters and passing around bootlegged photos. What is all the fuss about? The protesters are referring to the long delay in making public many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, those mysterious documents discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem. As they see it, the world...