Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revive public trust in a Justice Department plagued by the scandalridden Edwin Meese, then Institute of Politics Director Richard Thornburgh, who had earned a reputation for integrity during his tenure as governor of Pennsylvania, took the post of Attorney General. Thornburgh's nomination, like Cavazos's, received unanimous confirmation from the Senate earlier in the summer...
...October 5th plebiscite, in which Chileans voted a decisive "No" to General Pinochet's dictatorship and brought presumably free elections in 1989, was watched in Peru with anxiety and a queer feeling of clairvoyance...
...target of this socially ascending wave of resolution is not only Germanicus (whose exhausted head on the pillow vividly predicts the style of Gericault nearly 200 years later) but also his little son, whose blue cloak matches the general's; the women suffer, but the boy learns, remembers and will act. The more Germanicus unfolds, the more one realizes why Bernini, on his visit to Louis XIV in Paris, declared Poussin to be the only French artist who really mattered: un grande favoleggiatore, "a great storyteller...
...SHADOWS. Haitians long suspected that Lieut. General Henri Namphy, ousted as President last month, had links to the dreaded Tontons Macoutes. But photos found after his overthrow have shocked even the most cynical Haitians. One shows Namphy with his arms around two Macoutes assassins killed by mobs during the coup. Namphy apparently also had a nasty temper; a Haitian businessman claims he vowed to murder two U.S. legislators if they showed up to observe last November's elections. (They never came.) No wonder no country has offered Namphy political asylum...
Although an ex-athlete, someone whom you would think would naturally heed the advice of the Surgeon General, Heinsohn frequently reached into his pack of Marlboro cigarettes during the interview. Here, at last, is a real Marlboro...