Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguan not to be a Sandinista? Some members of the Roman Catholic Church, opposition political parties and labor organizations, she says, suffer "undisguised and hidden repression." Her team heard repeated accounts of arbitrary arrests and interrogations that included food and water deprivation, simulated executions, and detention in dark cells. "The country is not yet totalitarian," she says. "What we saw was a government in the process of consolidating its power...
...request to give $100 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras, who seek to overthrow the Sandinista regime. "The Administration deserved to have its nose bloodied on this," said Democratic Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin. "They handled this really badly." To a disappointed Reagan, the vote was "a dark day for freedom...
...buying dollars to support the value of the U.S. currency. But no one could be sure that the bank would succeed, and a sense of helplessness came over many Japanese executives. Said an official of NEC, a leading Japanese electronics manufacturer: "It is like groping our way in the dark. All we want now is for the exchange rate to stabilize...
...Governor's spot, attributed the upset to "anger on the part of the public at the regular Democratic slate." For his part, Fairchild said, he would like to reach some kind of agreement with Stevenson. Hart, 31, the new Democratic nominee for secretary of state, was less gracious. A dark, alarmingly intense woman who has been a LaRouche disciple since she was 17, she spoke at her victory press conference in the flat tones of a military commander: "We will roll our tanks down State Street, and make sure every citizen is armed, with reason and beauty. We will hang...
When the board voted to make the cut anyway, many Federal Reserve staffers thought that Volcker might resign. But Newcomer Angell went to the chairman's office a few hours later and suggested a compromise. By the end of the day, the board assembled again at its dark mahogany table and suspended the rate cut so that Volcker could have more time to confer with foreign officials. Less than two weeks later, after West Germany and other countries had reduced their interest charges, the board unanimously voted to lower the discount rate...