Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years later, after glimpsing a beautiful young man while on tour in Sri Lanka, he turned to homosexuality. But he continued to have affairs with women, always griping about the shortcomings of either arrangement. Nonetheless, through the tantrums a saving wit always comes to the rescue. After one dark rumination he cries, "What's a gender...
Accusations about these dark chapters in Waldheim's past, based largely on material collected by the World Jewish Congress, began surfacing in 1985. During last year's presidential race in Austria, which Waldheim won with 54% of the vote, the U.S. came under intense pressure from Jewish groups to place Waldheim's name on its "watch list" of some 40,000 suspected war criminals, convicts, deportees and others who are unwelcome in the U.S. To avoid interfering with the Austrian elections, Washington chose to conduct its own meticulous investigation, including the examination by a Justice Department team of previously unavailable...
...some in the Administration used a shady network to undermine America's policy of not trading for hostages and to circumvent laws prohibiting the Government from supplying military aid to the contras. The critical lesson, Cohen predicts, will be the discovery that "you can't formulate policy in some dark corner without heading toward anarchy...
...dark, promising rain, as thousands of office workers in Colombo hurried along Gasworks Street toward the bus station. Some passengers dawdled for a moment before boarding, to sip pineapple juice or buy a bag of plantains from one of the many kiosks. For some, that decision proved fatal. The explosion came at the very height of the rush hour, ripping through the open- air depot and setting buses ablaze. Those who were not killed instantly were stunned, deafened or knocked unconscious by the blast. "People were running and screaming all around me," said B.D. Premadasa, a government worker...
...Maurice Oldfield, the late chief of MI6, Britain's supersecret intelligence service, was a scholarly, chubby and unprepossessing bachelor. He enjoyed an impeccable reputation, and was said to be the prototype for Novelist John le Carre's spy master, George Smiley. But unlike Smiley, Oldfield had a dark secret that has posthumously cast a shadow over his career...