Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the sunniest version of South Africa's destiny, the country, being the strongest economy in Africa, will begin to lead the continent into the 21st century. But everyone's mind entertained a dark, simultaneous vision of disintegration: of economic disaster and tribal war. Images of Rwanda's Tutsi and...
Frustrated with the Administration's seeming indifference, 24 U.S. unions will call for a boycott of Haitian goods this week. At the Washington headquarters of TransAfrica, a group that lobbied successfully on behalf of the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa, activist Randall Robinson began the third week of a hunger...
This allegory of good and evil has a '60s counterculture mind-set. The military hides the truth about the deadly plague and strong-arms the populace like Nazi storm troopers. The whole disaster is portrayed as an environmental corrective to the evils unleashed by the military-scientifi c complex. (It...
Still only 49, he decided to move to New York City and make some money by practicing corporate law. He joined a prosperous Wall Street firm, which thereupon became Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander. But he never really retired from politics. He was just biding his time. He thought...
Other politicians came and went, but Nixon was always coming back. By sheer endurance, he was the most important figure of the postwar era. Nixon put the country through some of its worst times, leading the red-scare politics of the 1950s, escalating the war in Vietnam in order to...