Word: defeatism
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...heart of the problem is the disputed status of Berlin. After Hitler's defeat in 1945, the city was carved up by the victorious Allies. Technically, the entire city is under the combined control of the four occupying nations. In practice, the three Western powers jointly administer the western half of the city, while the Soviet Union takes responsibility for East Berlin. In 1949, with Moscow's backing, East Germany proclaimed East Berlin as its capital. When the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, the East Germans had a physical boundary that they insisted was part of their frontier. They...
...while Melendez is now universally admired and acknowledged as the father of the current student government, his public persona may have accounted for his near defeat at the hands of little known challenger Betsy Touhey '86 when he ran for a second term as Council chair in February of 1985. Touhey, who became a candidate only after a group of council representatives drew straws earlier that evening, lost to Melendez by one vote...
Presumably, the Cannes jury did like The Mission. To Tarkovsky's defenders, though, it seemed a demonstration that in Cannes 1986 as in Peru 1755, materialists could still defeat champions of the spirit. Even in the movie business, reality is ever intervening. Throughout the festival, the $6 million ship built for Roman Polanski's Pirates stood gallantly in the Cannes harbor, a toy boat of CinemaScope dimensions. On the day after the festival ended, it was joined by a bigger ship: the aircraft carrier U.S.S. America from the Sixth Fleet, fresh from its raid on Libya. The circus has left...
...fact that Cuomo is being considered for the presidency at all is phenomenal. Until age 46, he had never held elective office. The lawyer from Queens, N.Y., lost his first two bids for election. After his defeat in a race for New York City mayor in 1977, he was considered politically dead. No one gave him a chance when he declared for Governor in 1982. His victory three years ago was the first election he had ever won without running on someone else's coattails. His three years in office have been relatively uneventful. Yet now, even as he carefully...
...Republican-controlled Senate votes to override the President's veto by the required two-thirds majority, it is a foregone conclusion that the Democratic-dominated House will do so too. For Reagan that would amount to the most stinging foreign policy defeat of his presidency. But even if the Senate sustains the veto by a vote or two, the Administration will have won only a hollow victory. It has watered down the arms sale enough to force the Saudis to look to Western Europe for some types of sophisticated weaponry. The Saudis, far from being reassured of U.S. support...