Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Paris erupted with fireworks, flowers and music on V-E day, West Germany's Bundestag, not surprisingly, voted down any German notation of the anniversary. "We truly have no occasion to celebrate this day," said Chancellor Ludwig Erhard in a moving speech. "The guilt and fate of this epoch of our history will not leave us for generations." Moscow, however, was determined to rub it in on the West Germans. Premier Aleksei Kosygin flew to East Berlin to join Puppet Walter Ulbricht and Poland's Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz in a parade of thousands of Russian and East...
...BRITAIN. Aliens entering Britain get a sharp once-over from immigration officers broadly empowered to bar undesirables-for example, anyone broke enough to become a public charge. U.S. students hoping to work their way may suffer that fate; those who get jobs without work permits may later be deported. By consular agreement, word of an American's arrest is immediately passed to U.S. officials. The accused's right to counsel begins at the pretrial magistrate's hearing. In civil as well as criminal cases, the government pays the bill if a British defendant (or plaintiff) cannot afford...
...Communist lieutenants do not necessarily determine the fate of an uprising comprising tens of thousands of non-Communist Bosch supporters. Kennedy's experience with CIA reports before the Bay of Pigs should have suggested to Johnson that the CIA is occasionally inaccurate. Judging from New York Times reports, there was a good chance that the non-Communist pro-Bosch forces would have been able to win. Yet Johnson was in no mood to wager on the Dominican Republic becoming another Cuba. That is why he intervened...
...Bridges. At least thirty other Bulgarians faced a different fate. The government communiqué admitted the "arrest of certain persons who have violated the laws of the country." Most prominent and potentially dangerous: General Tsvetko Anev, 53, commander of the Sofia army garrison...
...Delhi, the English dispatch their women to the Rao's palace, confident that they will be out of harm's way. The Rao briskly institutes a private mutiny of his own. He transforms the matrons into concubines, and the proper Victorians are soon fighting to embrace a fate worse than death. The romantic and violent 19th century is Author Lesley Blanch's special province. Painter, stage designer, film critic and ex-wife of Novelist Romain Gary, she has written several skillful biographies of the period (The Wilder Shores of Love, The Sabres of Paradise). In this book...