Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under attack by Apaches; the colonel is dying; the young captain is standing by. The colonel-in the sort of role Reagan was always too fresh-faced to play-tells the captain this may be the only time he will face such circumstances, and to rise to them. Fate, the way Reagan views it, now has put him in a similar position. He is in a tough spot not of his own choosing. But as long as he is there, he must look into the guns...
What will be the fate of the Basque people now that Franco is no longer head of the Spanish government? The importance of the Basque country to the Spanish economy is undeniable. Bilbao is the "Pittsburgh of Spain"--and the government's long struggle to repress the separatist movement can be expected to continue. However, the tension created by the presence of thirty-thousand paramilitary police in the north has not succeeded in discouraging separatist sentiment but rather has served to fan the flames of disenchantment with the present regime even among the most conservative factions of the Basque leadership...
...nation (50?). Ford's "bumper-sticker philosophy," said Beame, had "triggered hatred, disunity and confusion." New York Governor Hugh Carey lobbied his former colleagues in Congress, then at the end of the week he headed for the West Coast to try to convince people that their fate was entwined with New York City's. Joining the fight, Terence Cardinal Cooke of the New York Archdiocese declared that the human needs of the city required the Federal Government to show "compassion and justice...
Rapacious Neighbors. One measure of the prevailing confusion was uncertainty about the fate of Cabinda, a tiny (2,800 sq. mi.) oil-rich enclave that is geographically disconnected from the rest of Angola and wedged between Zaïre and the Congo. Last week Zaïre announced that Congolese troops had invaded Cabinda. When there was no confirmation from inside Cabinda, suspicions grew that Zaïre was merely preparing a justification for mounting its own invasion. At week's end Zaïre announced it was massing troops on its border with Cabinda, and a full-scale...
...Levy rushed the book out to aid the UFW in the crucial farm worker elections now underway in the California fields. The story of the election struggle would have been a more logical stopping point for a book about Chavez and the union since the results may determine the fate of the movement. But what's worse is that Levy has thrown five years of impressive research into a book designed to promote Chavez rather than explain...