Word: bloodshedding
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During this episode, George Bush has displayed his favorite quality, prudence, to good effect. He understands that politics is a matter of being right about ends as well as means, of recognizing limits as well as obligations and opportunities. The last thing Bush wants is to repeat the mistake that...
After Chamorro's decisive showing, winning 55% of the vote to Ortega's 41%, claiming victory was the easy part. A harder question is whether the politically unseasoned Chamorro, 60, is prepared to guide bankrupt Nicaragua through the difficult transition from a revolutionary state to a functioning multiparty democracy. The...
Once Gorbachev's democratization had lifted the lid, fiery-eyed nationalism leaped out. Azerbaijanis and Armenians fell upon one another as if centuries of Muslim-Christian warfare had never seen a truce. Moscow sent in peacekeeping troops, and Azerbaijanis denounced the government, publicly burning their red party cards. Soviet forces...
Throughout his 35-year career, Magubane, 58, has been on hand for most of South Africa's historic moments. He photographed Mandela's Rivonia trial in 1964 and covered the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, which claimed the lives of 69 blacks. "I had never seen so many dead people," he recalls...
"The Soviet Union we left was an island of lies," Rostropovich said at a crowded press conference. "Now my country is cleansing itself of these lies. Wonderful words of freedom are being spoken. I look forward to the day when these words become a reality. Then we may live again...