Word: denouement
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...stage was thus set for last week's denouement, when the army's 2nd Division took the matter into its own hands. At dawn elements of the division quietly moved into the palm-lined streets of Asmara (pop. 200,000), the country's second largest city. Firing no shots, they closed the airport, sealed all roads into the city, shut the banks and government offices, and put Asmara's governor general under house arrest. They carefully avoided interfering with civilians. Proclaiming their loyalty to the Emperor, the soldiers demanded pay hikes, better pensions, housing and medical...
Formally, the subject was how to deal with the world energy shortage -but the delegates to last week's 13-nation Washington Energy Conference spent little time talking about that. The real subject was U.S.-European relations, and the denouement was straight out of the De Gaulle era: the U.S. got everyone to go along with a common approach except France, which again played the role of odd country out at the cost of a deepening split between itself and its Common Market partners...
...should have known the tradition of the double-disaster weekend would stand, who would have guessed that a new dimension would be added to the Carbon Copy debacle? Who had the foresight to see that Harvard not only would endure the same denouement--back-to-back losses--but would follow the same dismal plot-line both nights...
That scenario, at least in its essentials, now appears destined to be repeated in Britain, although the denouement this time may be even more traumatic. The current dispute began last November when the country's 247,000 coal miners refused to work overtime until they received substantial wage increases. Then Heath declared a state of emergency, cut power to industry and businesses by 25%, and put the country on a three-day work week to conserve fuel. Last week the miners lashed back by calling for a vote to strike...
...impeach. Illinois Republican Congressman John Anderson, a good political weather vane, declared, "This is the penultimate link in the chain of evidence that has steadily been forged to show that there has been a conscious, deliberate effort to obstruct justice. One has the feeling of approaching the final denouement in this drama." He also thought the mystery of the erasure should soon be solved fee THE ESSAY...