Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only seven days earlier, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had endured the strain of President Reagan's controversial visit to a military cemetery at Bitburg with its Nazi graves. Last week the Chancellor faced an ordeal that was, in terms of his political future, more significant. In the most important...
DIED. Margaret Hamilton, 82, character actress in 75 films and scores of plays who in her most memorable role, as the cackling, green-faced Wicked Witch of the West in 1939's classic The Wizard of Oz, became an incarnation of evil to generations of deliciously scared children; in Salisbury...
Yet the Tony nominations also confirmed the wisdom and courage of the producers of three shows that have bucked this trend. All three lacked surefire commercial appeal, and all faced some critical skepticism, but they defied the doomsayers and hung on. Last week they were rewarded. Big River, a sweet...
The Department of State is accustomed to difficult negotiations, but the adversaries it faced in a Washington courtroom last week were from its own ranks. In a class action, 2,700 present and former women Foreign Service officers have charged Foggy Bottom with sex discrimination. Said Ellen Kabcenell Wayne, an...
The trial is expected to last about a month. The plaintiffs say that discrimination begins with the job assignments offered to women and continues with promotions, resulting in markedly fewer eligible women than men being elevated to top positions. The suit further charges that women tend to be funneled into...