Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although few of them would admit it, a large number of American Jews hold these opinions. Until recently, these people, whom I call "the Zealots," were not readily distinguishable from the more moderate supporters of Israel...
...following a bomb attack on the headquarters of the left-leaning National Federation of Salvadoran Workers that killed ten people. The bombing was widely attributed to the right-wing death squads, which, after slumbering for several years, are once again marauding throughout El Salvador. The rebels hold Cristiani and his rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) government responsible for both the resurgence of the death squads and the arrest, injury or killing of more than 400 suspected guerrilla sympathizers in recent months. It is likely that last week's offensive was at least in part a response to the wave...
...Time Warner, also received exclusive cable-TV distribution rights for all Columbia feature films, television movies and mini-series. Included were the 2,700 movies in Columbia's film library. In addition, Warner Bros. will become sole owner of the valuable Burbank Studios -- which the two companies now jointly hold -- by acquiring Columbia's 35% interest in the film lot in exchange for sole title to Warner's smaller Lorimar Studio. And Warner will keep some 50 film projects that Guber and Peters have under development, including Batman and Rain Man sequels...
...lost. Big dealers will have their tame resident critics, as princes their poetasters. There will no longer be much distinction between collectors and dealers, and the collector-as-amateur will be extinct. On the boards of many museums, a new breed of broker, the collector-dealer-trus tee, will hold sway. And art will keep draining out of America toward Japan and Europe. Welcome to the future: a full-management art industry. Most of it is here already...
Thousands of demonstrators shake the remaining hard-line regimes. -- Could East Germany hold its own in a partnership with West Germany? -- A hotbed of protest in Leipzig. -- Guerrillas storm the capital of El Salvador, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers, rebels and civilians, and the brutal slaying of six Jesuit priests...