Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America's tongue-tied denial may be rooted in the way the destruction of Flight 655 brutally conflicts with the nation's self-image. Americans do not see themselves as trigger-happy gunslingers; that black-hat role was played by the Soviet Union in 1983 when it brazenly shot down...
Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Velayati of Iran called the destruction of Iran Air 655 and the 290 civilians aboard July 3 "the most inhumane military attack in the history of civilian aviation...a barbaric massacre."
The vice president, who said he was delivering "the free world's case," called the destruction of the airliner a "terrible human tragedy" but said the United States has a "legal right" to protect Persian Gulf shipping lanes.
Testimony during the trial also revealed thatHarvard had incinerated 10 years' worth of tenuredocuments relevant to the case. The Universitymaintains that the destruction was accidental.
New law will not restore the parks to the purity of Eden, nor halt the waves of people pressing in on them. "Preservation involves two paradoxes," writes Alston Chase, author of Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park. "We can restore and sustain the appearance...