Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work honored by the Templeton Foundation. Solzhenitsyn recalled last week, "I was being subjected to increasing pressure and harassment. At this time I experienced a feeling that I had support-supernatural support. I wrote [the prayer] in the consciousness of the various outcomes that could be called my fate: maybe this is the last moment. Maybe this is it." But it was only the beginning...
...Begin government, there was still some fine print to be discussed. The Cabinet approved the agreement only in principle; in a terse communiqué issued after the meeting, the Israelis demanded "clarifications" on several issues. The crucial ones involved details of security arrangements in southern Lebanon and the fate of Major Saad Haddad, the former Lebanese army officer and longtime Israeli ally whose 1,000-to-2,000-man force has controlled the border area since 1978. Even some Cabinet members who voted for the accord were unhappy with the document. "It is not a good arrangement," declared Yitzhak Moda...
...altogether. The discovery of more than 1,500 unmarked graves last October made that silence especially difficult. Pressure also mounted from civilian politicians, along with the resolute "Mothers of Plaza de Mayo," who for years have demonstrated every Thursday in Buenos Aires' central square, demanding to know the fate of their missing children and other...
...diaries, one almost overlooked entirely the news from Rumania. There, on April 28, a government decree took effect requiring all citizens to register their typewriters with the police. The stated purpose of this decision was to prohibit Rumanian troublemakers from typing anti-Communist leaflets, but anyone concerned with the fate of the typewriter will recognize a trend. It is going, this wonderful machine. It is on its way out of the world. Whether at the urgings of the Communists or the word processors, the device that has come to be called the old-fashioned manual will soon lie dusty...
...came Brad Mills, his bat in hand, ready for his fate...