Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preceptor in Russian Liubov Mandel, a Soviet emigree, called the series' premise a "useful idea," adding that she believes many Americans forget the danger of Soviet invasion. She said she found the depiction of the Soviet occupation deceptively appealing. "Under totalitarianism, it is not only terrible--it is also deadly boring," she said...
...moral arrogance. From our own history we learn what man is capable of. For that reason we must not imagine that we are quite different and have become better. There is no ultimately achievable moral perfection. We have learned as human beings, and as human beings we remain in danger. But we have the strength to overcome such danger again and again...
...There's a danger in aestheticizing unnacceptable things because when you turn pain into a work of art you make it acceptable, like watching a war on television...
Foreign aid has become a vast and powerful industry, but it is also an increasingly troubled one. Around the globe it is frequently marked by failure, frustration and danger. Two weeks ago, ten members of a medical team from the Paris-based Doctors Without Borders were abducted by armed men from a Somalian refugee camp. In Africa, civil warfare blocks relief shipments to areas where hundreds of thousands are starving. In Bangladesh, 15 years of foreign assistance has made little measurable improvement in people's lives. Everywhere stories are told and retold of corrupt government officials who rip off assistance...
Outside big cities, many aid workers face constant danger. Guerrillas ambushed a 50-truck relief convoy late last year in southern Sudan, killing ten drivers. In a previous attack, rebels handcuffed truck drivers to their steering wheels and executed them by tossing hand grenades into the cabs. In Mozambique, where resistance fighters are at war with the Marxist government, few foreigners dare venture far from the capital of Maputo or other relatively secure areas. Some who do so never return. When relief workers reached the Indian Ocean port of Vilanculos last year, they found that a five-member East German...