Word: existence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school committee is under the impression that the BU plan is the only measure that can work, and they're willing to pay the price to get what they're looking for," said Menzies. "But other alternatives do exist where laws are not altered and rights are not given...
...intelligence, probably the world's best trackers of terrorist groups, point to Ahmed Jibril, leader of the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Fourteen members of Jibril's group, which fiercely opposes P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat's decision to recognize Israel's right to exist and open talks with the U.S., were arrested by West German authorities in October. Seized with them was a cache of arms that included the ultimate boom box: a portable radio packed with a plastic explosive so cleverly concealed that the radio still worked. The wire detonator was fashioned...
...P.L.O. has now accepted Israel's right to exist, and the U.S. -- in its own contribution to the finale of 1988 -- has accepted that acceptance. But Israel's new government is steered by Likud's Yitzhak Shamir, who refuses to budge from one inch of the West Bank. If only his position on that key issue were a little more ambiguous. The recent diplomatic progress between the Arabs and the U.S., however welcome, could still end up being a sideshow to the tragedy of the principals passing in the night. As the P.L.O.'s leaders are becoming less rejectionist, Israel...
...Americans believe that charities are needed more now than they were just five or ten years ago. In New York City there are about 35,000 people living on the streets, compared with 500 a decade ago. AIDS, which alone has pulled thousands of people into action, did not exist. Crack, which has perhaps done more to ruin children than any other drug, did not exist. "Volunteerism is as old as the nation," says Winifred Brown, executive director of New York City's Voluntary Action Center, "and it's as new as today's headlines...
...magnificent Hermitage in Leningrad, is covered with a thick layer of oil. Ill-advised dam construction and inappropriate irrigation projects have caused the level of the Aral Sea to drop 40 ft. It is possible that this body of water, the world's sixth largest sea, will not exist in 20 years. Siberia, once pristine, is laced with wastes from steel, chemical and coal industries. Worrisome numbers of dead sturgeon are floating atop the polluted Volga River, threatening the Soviets' prestigious caviar supply. Resorts along the Black Sea have banned swimming after the government's warning that the waters...