Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The situation demanded strong words, and President Carlos Saul Menem did not shrink from using them. In his July 8 inaugural address, Menem urged his citizens to "Get up and walk!" Argentina, he declared, "is broken, devastated, razed. Inflation has reached chilling levels, but we aren't going to administer...
For an ambitious politician, a crisis can also be an opportunity. Cast in the sympathetic role of a reformer, Kemp could ride the current wave of unsolicited attention into a bright political future. Though he has appointed , a deputy to ride herd on the reform effort, it is Kemp who...
The dangerous notion that the intifadeh must be defeated rather than calmed transcends Israel's current political crisis. True statesmen would seek victory for everyone.
"I think the time has come for us to determine with as much accuracy as we can what the powers of the Legislature [and] the governor are on these conditional vetoes," Keverian said. "I don't see it as a crisis so much as a difference of opinion."
But shattered diplomacy and a growing domestic political crisis were swiftly overshadowed by the violence endemic to the divided Holy Land. Only 18 hours after Shamir's announcement, an Arab fundamentalist from Gaza whose family had been wounded by Israeli soldiers grabbed the wheel of an Israeli bus as it...