Word: democraticizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within days Chicagoans were fully briefed on every sickening detail of the brawny contractor's Dr.-Jekyll-and-Mr.-Hyde past. His friends and neighbors knew him as a kind, gregarious man who would bring them baskets of fruit as presents, shovel their walks unasked, throw enormous backyard parties for...
Nowhere is the anxiety about Iran greater than in Washington. Since 1972 the U.S. has pursued a policy of unremitting support for the Shah. But that kind of thinking, a veteran policymaker observed last week, caused the U.S. to "miss a chance to act. Washington proceeded on the assumption that...
The shroud of terror and darkness that has enveloped Cambodia ever since it fell to the Communist Khmer Rouge in April 1975 lifted slightly last week, but in a way that was at once tragic and bizarre. After a three-year refusal by Cambodia's new rulers to admit...
The year-old social-democratic Ecevit government was being brutally tested in ways similar to the more drastic turmoil in neighboring Iran. But there were also differences. The key one was that the violence that threatened Ecevit's government was based on religious rivalry. One of the factions is...
Back in 1976, when Jerry Ford was still President and Shirley Babashoff was still queen of American women's swimming, the muscular mermaids from the German Democratic Republic capped their dramatic rise to aquatic supremacy by taking 11 of 13 gold medals at the Montreal Olympics. This past summer, a...