Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fate is still in our hands," said Coach Barry Haskell, who will try to lead Harvard to its first Ivy title. "We are right where we want...
Critics have stigmatized the proposed deal as "Yalta II," a repetition of Franklin Roosevelt's unwitting sellout of Eastern Europe in 1945. The State Department bureaucracy is unanimously (though anonymously) convinced that a superpower negotiation on the fate of Europe would offend the Europeans. Last month James Baker publicly floated the idea, without quite endorsing it. Sure enough, transatlantic cables poured into Foggy Bottom with protests and warnings. The British Ambassador in Washington sought, and received, assurances that the Administration was not embracing the plan. Last week Kissinger insisted that his purpose is not to redo Yalta but to undo...
...while Soviet and Vietnamese interests are well served by the end of the occupation, Kampuchea's fate remains extremely uncertain. A rearrangement of political power among all the contending factions has yet to be worked out. More ominously, diplomacy will have to move fast to forestall a triumphant return of the Khmer Rouge. Some 2 million Kampucheans died under their monstrous four-year tenure, and they are today the strongest fighting force among opponents to the Vietnamese-backed government...
Schama's splendid recounting soon convinces us, however, that much of what we thought we knew is wrong, a collection of Hollywood versions of 19th century romances: Leslie Howard as "that demmed elusive Pimpernel," or Ronald Colman doing a "far, far better thing" by accepting the fate prescribed by Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. Schama's reality is very different from the legends...
...week before our arrival in Tambov, the drivers on two trolleybus lines had gone on strike, protesting the dreadful condition of the roads Tambovskaya Pravda, the local Communist Party daily, devoted the front page to a regional party committee meeting, examining the fate of those repressed under Stalin Elections had been held for a new factory director In the town of Michurinsk, 40 miles to the northwest, an ecology rally had been organized, drawing more than 1,000 people...