Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOMEWHERE in the Soviet Union, locked away in a prison cell, Raoul Wallenberg, one of the greatest heroes of this century, may still be alive. During the latter stages of World War II. Wallenberg, then a young Swedish diplomat, worked feverishly to counter the forces of the notorious German SS leader Adolf Eichmann and the Hungarian terrorist group, the Arrow Cross, in their attempt to destroy the Hungarian Jewish population. It is estimated that he was directly responsible for saving well over 100,000 lives. But in 1945, when Russian troops captured Budapest, where Wallenberg was working, the Soviets arrested...
...will vote on, much less pass, the amendment before the June 30 deadline. Only 35 of the needed 38 states have approved it so far, and five of these have tried to rescind their votes. ERA activists continue the fight, most strongly in Florida, Missouri and Illinois. In the latter state, supporters hope to force a rules change that would require only a simple majority rather than a three-fifths vote of the state legislature to approve a constitutional amendment. Pro-ERA forces waged a vigorous campaign in Oklahoma, where the amendment was thought to have the strongest chance...
...national elections mandated by the 1955 Geneva conference would probably have propelled Ho Chi Minh into power--a likelihood that we and South Vietnam's aspiring bosses were unwilling to accept. So America chose to keep the country divided, and substitute military power for genuine political authority--for the latter was not ours to give...
...disclosed a private State Department memo discussing ways of putting pressure on the military regime in Poland, and the Washington Post has reported on a secret Pentagon study indicating that military costs over the next five years may be $750 billion more than now projected. Furor about this latter leak prompted Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci and some associates to volunteer to take lie-detector tests to show they were not culpable. Even as the White House was considering new ways of dealing with the problem, word was beginning to leak about another sensitive matter: the Administration's decision...
...should one care about this schematic myth-wagging inside an art gallery when its limitations would be obvious anywhere else? The difference between archaic or tribal art and new art that feigns an archaic or tribal look is that the former was once dense with social meaning, whereas the latter, being deracinated and arbitrary, has little or none. But romanticizing the primitive, along with the instinctive and the natural, was central to expressionism in the '20s, and must be revived along with its look...