Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...challenge has been to reconcile the populace's demand for justice against military excesses with the army's own demand for respect and recognition of its role in putting down a Communist insurgency. Over the past 22 months, disgruntled colonels have staged three uprisings, demanding pay raises and an end to the trials of officers charged with human-rights offenses. Alfonsin hiked military wages 20% last December and dropped cases against middle-level officers, but has refused to commute the sentences of ten top military and police commanders convicted of human- rights abuses...
...biggest loser is Kanin. His script, considered an American classic, either has dated badly or was overrated to start. It is a political, moral and especially a rhetorical muddle; its most grandiloquent speeches sound like discarded first drafts for a lesser Frank Capra movie. At the end, a Senator gets away with taking a bribe and Brock apparently gets away with murder, all with the connivance of the supposed hero and heroine. That may echo how some spectators feel about the outcome of recent insider-trading cases, but Kanin seemingly intended a shout of triumph, not this cynical sigh...
...LaRouche associates also received prison sentences of three to five years and fines of $6,000 to $11,000. Soon afterward, federal prosecutors in Boston dropped obstruction of justice charges against LaRouche. Four years of investigations into the financial shenanigans of the LaRouche movement had come to an end. "This is not a political case," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kent Robinson. "This was a case of theft...
Duarte's stand put him sharply at odds with Washington, which has staunchly backed the Salvadoran leader's efforts to end the nation's civil war. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the F.M.L.N. offer was "worthy of serious and substantive consideration." Privately, State Department officials were enthusiastic, lauding the proposal as a fundamental shift in rebel policy that could signal a breakthrough...
...Tony winner (Inner City), finds dignity in Come Sunday but loses it in her gleeful giggling about wife beating in T'aint Nobody's Bizness if I Do. While Carrie Smith displays a howitzer voice in I Want a Big Butter and Egg Man, she overdecorates the end of Am I Blue and dissipates the emotional payoff. All three, given their ample proportions, should have questioned the white feathered dresses for the finale that make them look like ostriches with glandular problems...