Word: holocaust
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...remarks represented no change in U.S. military policy. However carelessly he may have spoken, Reagan was simply restating a tenet of the doctrine of "flexible response" that both the U.S. and its European allies accepted years ago: the use of tactical nuclear weapons would not necessarily lead to nuclear holocaust. If the Soviets were to attack in Europe with their overwhelming superiority in conventional arms, NATO could choose to respond on the battlefield with tactical nuclear weapons, a threat meant to deter any invasion in the first place...
...week, as the President's words were reported, misreported and exaggerated, they detonated on the other side of the Atlantic. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev seized upon Reagan's remarks to try to show that the U.S. was willing to use weapons that would inevitably bring on the holocaust. Said Brezhnev...
...that she had made her reputation as a stage actress at the Yale School of Drama and at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York City, were struck by her portrayal of a gentile woman married to a Jew among the haunted faces of the Holocaust series. As Woody Allen's lesbian ex-wife in Manhattan, she was chilling and funny, and an exquisite counterpoise to the agitated femininity of Diane Keaton. In The Seduction of Joe Tynan, she was utterly convincing, cornpone accent and all, as the other woman, a Southern civil rights lawyer who falls in love...
...Godfather films. They fell in love and lived together until Cazale died of bone cancer two years later, at 42. By the time they worked together in Michael Cimino's Deer Hunter, Cazale was fighting for the strength to say his lines. Streep had contracted to film Holocaust in Austria, where, as Cazale was dying in the U.S., she played a woman whose husband was imprisoned in a concentration camp. It was a grim experience, but, says Actor Fritz Weaver, who worked with her, "there was not one moment of self-pity. She has tremendous professional devotion." Back...
...severely buffeted by criticism from abroad, stirred up by Newspaper Publisher Jacobo Timerman, a former military prisoner who has revived the terror issue by charging in a U.S. bestseller that Argentina's government is Nazi in nature. A Jew, Timerman has evoked the image of a new Holocaust...