Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholars assigned the various texts among themselves. As for the scrolls, some eventually went on display at West Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book, but most ended up in the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem. When Israel gained jurisdiction over the museum in the 1967 Six-Day War, it left the existing team in place. Recently the members have consigned some scrolls to graduate assistants, cutting out better-known experts...
...remain the leader of perestroika and the leader of the nomenklatura," the topmost ranks of the party. "He must make a choice." Gorbachev responded at a Supreme Soviet session last week, referring to "provocative appeals" from some of the group's members and criticizing their description of themselves as "left radicals." He was uncertain "what good this will bring to our cause...
...leading a protest in his township, he was arrested and released. But later, when his home and three trucks mysteriously burned one night, he was rearrested, convicted of being "idle and undesirable" and banished from the area. The local authorities then moved to seize his land and what was left of his house...
...playwright, Hwang has his critics within the Asian-American community. Those on the left see him as having sold out to white ways. Those on the right criticize him for airing the dirty linen of the Asian subculture. He is particularly at odds with Asians who pride themselves on the reputation of being a "model minority," with low crime and high SAT scores. "To me," he says, "being stereotyped as superhuman is just another kind of dehumanization. What I love about America is its tradition, not so much of blurring distinctions or subsuming cultures as of different cultures coming...
...chief of the air force, hinted that a coup was possible if the opposition candidate ever makes good on his pledge to repeal the 1978 amnesty for crimes committed by the Chilean armed forces from 1973 to 1978. But after the opposition suggested that such a decision would be left to the "elected authorities," Matthei seemed mollified. Now many are hoping the exchange sets off a constructive dialogue between the armed forces and the opposition to defuse the issue before a new government is elected next December...