Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stern's editorial workers, now even more distressed, met once again to discuss the fiasco. They presented a list of demands to their editors, but would not make them public. One employee reported: "Everyone is panicking. No one can believe that this is happening to us." Editor Koch's head was the first to roll. He submitted his resignation, as did another top editor, Felix Schmidt...
...shortcomings of Stern and a few historians are not the most disturbing aspects of this fiasco. The diaries were clearly an attempt to show Hitler in a different, more positive light. Excerpts released before the hoax was discovered maintained that Hitler was reluctant prior to the war to persecute Jews and had attempted several times during the conflict to make peace with the allies. Every historical account to date on the Third Reich flatly contradicts these theses. But given Hitler's stamp of legitimacy, a new version of the Nazi era could conceivably have emerged and been accepted by future...
...year since Argentina's attempt to seize the Falkland Islands ended in a humiliating defeat by British forces, the military government has never issued a full explanation for the fiasco. Former President Leopoldo Galtieri, who masterminded the foiled invasion and then left office in disgrace three days after his country's surrender, has finally lifted that veil of secrecy. His candid account of military incompetence and official bungling stunned not only his countrymen but members of the ruling three-man junta and his successor, President Reynaldo Bignone. Last week the government charged Galtieri with violating military regulations that...
...Argentina's current military rulers have overreacted to Galtieri's outspokenness, it is because they too bear responsibility for the Falklands fiasco. Buenos Aires is rife with speculation that Galtieri's arrest is only the first step in a campaign by the junta to saddle him with the Falklands failure, allowing the rest of the military establishment to escape blame. The generals, in any event, are on their way out. In a further move toward a promised return to civilian rule by early next year, the junta last week restored the political rights of 19 party...
While hoping Kirkpatrick and others will be allowed to have their say on the future, though, we must inquire why the call for free speech that arose after the Kirkpatrick fiasco seems to apply only to those of the ambassador's political persuasion. The United States government recently refused entry visas to the widow of former Chilean leader Salvador Allende and to Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Both had been invited to address organizations in this country. Both are leftists. And both, like Kirkpatrick, should be able to make their voices heard in the United States without having...