Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final straw for Duvalier may have been his anxiety over the annual pre- Lenten carnival that was to begin this week. For Haitians, the three-day Mardi Gras festival is a time of orgiastic release, when they can momentarily forget their cares. Ordinarily Baby Doc would have joined in the festivities, but a boycott of the carnival called by his opponents was gathering momentum. The President, sniggered residents of Port-au-Prince, would be the laughingstock of a carnival to which no one came. On the other hand, any crowds that did form would be a danger to his regime...
Only last week, in his State of the Union Address, President Reagan cited Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 as the arch enemy of welfare. The selective right-wing memory seems to forget who created the American welfare state in the first place...
...Forget the ballots; Marcos has already made sure they will not be counted. What emerges from the fraud, the violence and the chaos of contradictory "quick counts" on election results is that Marcos is no longer the favored leader of the Philippines and maneuvering to stay in power by hook or by crook. In light of the civil unrest and the near-standstill in vote counting, the situation is on the verge of disaster, not of getting better...
Furthermore it is an insult to ask the people of the Philippines to "forget the ballots" before the returns have been tabulated. Democracy is not an easy process in most of the world, but must be worked towards, not forsaken at the first sign of difficulty...
...also the narrator, and the events that led to her current condition must be pieced together from memories she has been conditioned to forget. The & United States of America is now the Republic of Gilead, a Fundamentalist Christian theocracy that arose after "they shot the president and machine- gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. They blamed it on the Islamic fanatics, at the time." The current regime is militantly opposed to the recent past, especially all traces of the moral permissiveness that arose in the U.S. during the waning decades of the 20th century...