Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a few months ago, a Nicaraguan friend, an exSandinista who still speaks their language, said in near despair that the struggle of democrats around the world was doomed by the absence in the West of what he called "democratic militance." The Reagan Doctrine represents a first step toward its restoration...
...many as 200 men were taken behind Israeli lines for further interrogation. When correspondents arrived in Zrariyah, twelve hours after the Israelis had entered the village, bodies still lay in the streets leading into the town. Wailing women milled about in grief and despair. A freshly painted sign on a wall read, in Arabic, THE REVENGE OF THE I.D.F. (for Israel Defense Forces). According to the Israelis, 34 guerrillas had been killed in the raid. + Villagers claimed that only half a dozen of the victims had carried guns...
...manner and his reliable but unspectacular interpretations of the standard repertory caused many to underestimate him. But in 44 years, the longest music directorship in American history, Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra to a height of tonal splendor that was the joy of his adopted city and the despair of orchestras everywhere else...
...Cocaine Coup. One of his first acts was to release drug mafiosos from jail. He proceeded to have the police records of cocaine traffickers destroyed and to punish those who disagreed with his policy. His army meanwhile pocketed millions of dollars in bribes and payoffs from drug dealers. In despair, local U.S. drug enforcers closed their office. As soon as Siles brought back democracy in 1982, however, the fight against drugs resumed. The DEA reopened its office and President Reagan appointed Corr, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotic Matters, as ambassador. Ten months after taking office...
...people's aspirations for freedom and democracy have done it all," and called for unification of the opposition parties. Said Kim Young Sam, who was released from house arrest on Wednesday: "The people are sick and tired of it all. South Korea today has too many causes for despair to be mentally and economically at ease." He also paid special tribute to the "student power" that had helped the N.K.D.P. to its solid showing. A day later, he was again restricted to his home as he was about to visit Kim Dae Jung, who has been under house arrest since...