Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similar under-the-table transactions have been taking place in recent weeks all over central and eastern El Salvador as the harvest of the country's biggest cash crop got under way. Despite the bitter enmity between Salvadoran landowners and the Liberation Front, the coffee harvest is a time when the two sides find good use for each other. This year the interdependence appears to be greater than ever. Says a lawyer in the central department of Usulutan: "Everybody is making deals with the guerrillas." The reason, he explains, is that "the guerrillas are stronger. Their presence is being accepted...
HOME BEFORE DARK by Susan Cheever. A revealing and poignant memoir of the author John Cheever by his sorrowing and sometimes bitter daughter...
...high court's flip-flop in the Stephens case reflects a deep fitfulness over capital punishment. "It takes its toll psychologically, and that spills into nasty memos," says one Supreme Court law clerk. Last year in one dissent, Justice William Brennan was especially bitter. "The court has once again rushed to judgment," he wrote, "apparently eager to reach a fatal conclusion...
...Union Carbide, one bitter irony of the tragedy was that the Bhopal plant was at best a marginal operation because of slumping demand for pesticides. Sales of products from the facility dropped 23% last year to $17 million, and the plant was operating at less than one-third of capacity. -By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Peter Stoler/New York
...emotions of the bitter Viet Nam era lived on in Room 318 of the U.S. courthouse in lower Manhattan last week, and so did the war's ambiguities. At issue was a 1982 CBS Reports documentary that accused Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, of participating in a "conspiracy" to understate the true strength of the enemy in order to make the war appear winnable. McNamara spoke emotionally in the general's defense. He stated that Westmoreland is "a person of tremendous integrity" who could never have lied to his superiors...