Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the first days after the Ayatullah's shocking death threat, governments and the general public alike in the U.S. and Western Europe were slow to react. Who could believe that a book that practically nobody had read -- and an often obscure if sometimes brilliant one, at that -- was the...
The most astonishing ideological pirouette was performed by President Khamenei, who had seemingly tried to defuse the crisis a few days earlier when he spoke of Rushdie's possible repentance. But Khamenei sounded almost as fierce as the Ayatullah last week, saying of the death edict, "The long black arrow...
At an Emerson hall speech before about 40 students, Salvadoran activists Salomon Alfaro Estrada and Rene Hernandez appeared on behalf of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). The pair is touring U.S. universities to inform American students about the Salvadoran political crisis.
Cremin finds the true crisis in the American educational system to be "a crisis in balancing [the] tremendous variety of demands" and responsibilities that the public places on the schools, while the children themselves, "with their almost infinite variety of needs, wants, and values," are ignored.
"This is the beginning of many actions that will have to be taken in order for the Military Division to survive in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, since our state budget has developed into a crisis situation, without any help being visualized in the near future," Wagner said in the order...