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...been unavoidably chaotic, with so many aircraft arriving at once," said Colin Wheeler, an engineer with Air Europe, which flew 20 tons of medical equipment and food into Yerevan on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earthquake Damages to Cost $8 Billion | 12/14/1988 | See Source »

ISRAEL was never supposed to be just another nation. Its creation in 1948 signified the triumph of the Jewish people over centuries of oppression and the perseverance of Jewish morals amidst persistent bigotry. Israel was to be a democracy in the chaotic Middle East, a haven for and common bond between Jews across the world, a "light unto the nations...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Higher Standard | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...years later authorized Bhutto's execution. "I told him on my oath in his death cell, I would carry on his work," Benazir Bhutto once said. In achieving victory by playing up her father's name and his strong populist appeal, she in effect vindicated his chaotic 5 1/2-year rule. Moreover, by besting the eight-party Alliance, which included many supporters of Zia's policies, she wreaked posthumous vengeance on the man who had her father put to death. Says Mushahid Hussain, a Pakistani journalist: "I think that Zia has finally been buried with this election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Addressing the Future, Avenging the Past | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Still, experts say, the transition will not be nearly as chaotic as it would have been had the Democrats captured the White House...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: Bush, Reagan Work on Easy Transition | 11/17/1988 | See Source »

...added considerably to the mystique surrounding the slight, bespectacled 35-year-old Roman Catholic priest, a socialist who is widely called a "prophet." Formerly a little- known worker among the dispossessed of his parish, Aristide is the only authentic leader who has emerged from the Haitian masses during the chaotic period since the despised dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier was overthrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Little Prophet of Haiti | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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