Word: kurds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect: whereas asylum applications in Texas ran at a rate of 233 a day two months ago, the level has dropped to fewer than ten daily. Other countries, including Britain and Denmark, ship some refugees to "safe third countries." If an Iranian, for example, arrives via Turkey or a Kurd via Egypt, he is returned to the last departure point...
...divine son, and Reese the messenger angel sent to impregnate Sarah with the holy word. But there is plenty of tech-noir savvy to keep infidels and action fans satisfied. The violence is copious, clean and discreet. Director James Cameron (who wrote the script with Producer Gale Anne Kurd) has a superefficient editing style that uses slow motion, pixilation and infra-red opticals to make this the smartest looking L.A. nighttown movie since The Driver...
DIED. Peter Kurd, 80, acclaimed artist of the American Southwest whose paintings, murals and lithographs depicted the sere, light-drenched landscapes and unworldly local personalities of his native New Mexico; of complications of Alzheimer's disease; in Roswell, N. Mex. A West Point dropout who studied with N.C. Wyeth and later married the illustrator's daughter Henriette, also a painter, Kurd was a World War II combat artist for LIFE. During the 1950's and '60s he painted more than a dozen covers for TIME, the most notable being that of President Lyndon Johnson...
...insidious political nature of Soviet military strategy and, by inference, the risk to the West of "self-Finlandization." At the same time, noted Kaiser, NATO'S missile decision, garlanded in the language of nuclear-weapons terminology, was hard to explain to people. Indeed, said Britain's Kurd, "our policies in Western Europe are formed to a large extent out of fears-that is to say they are defensive. We have had empires, we have fought about empires, we have abandoned empires, we are not any longer interested in empires. We are interested in preserving our way of life...
Publicly or privately, 30 nations now support Carter, including Britain, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. West Germany and a score more are leaning toward the U.S. position. Said Douglas Kurd, Minister of State at the British Foreign Office: "The I.O.C. is not living in the real world...