Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps even to find clues to the future. The current upheavals in Eastern Europe have inspired comparisons to another revolutionary year in European history. In recent weeks former presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Columbia University historian Fritz Stern, and editorial writers in the New York Times and Boston Globe have drawn parallels between...
...Soviet Union, where a prolonged discussion of Germany is likely to stir up latent anti-German sentiment and a fear of neo-Nazism. Officially, the Soviets are civil, but determinedly dead-set against reunification. Nikolai Portugalov, a Soviet expert on Germany, explained the Soviet stance to the Boston Globe last week. "The present geopolitical conditions in Europe," he said with Kruschev-like bluntness, "cannot tolerate a German confederation...
...right to diagnose people they have never met. Yet even hard-liners were startled last week when the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Psychologists opened an investigation of four practitioners -- a procedure that could end in revoking their right to practice -- because of interviews they gave the Boston Globe about the emotional problems of Kitty Dukakis, wife of Governor Michael Dukakis. An acknowledged recovering alcoholic and amphetamine addict, she was hospitalized Nov. 5 after drinking rubbing alcohol...
None of the therapists had treated her. Yet they speculated, according to the Globe, that Mrs. Dukakis' difficulties resulted from "taking on her husband's emotional burdens as well as her own"; they implied that the Governor is repressed and in effect made him the culprit in her illness. The psychologists also said he too needed therapy to help his wife. One even suggested that Dukakis resign his office (his term runs through 1990) to aid his wife's recovery. After the board acted, some of the psychologists said they had been misquoted or their remarks had been taken...
...Boston Globe reported yesterday that Keverian telephoned several House chairs over the weekend and told them they would have to resign their positions if they refused to support the package...