Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outbreak in Poland was mounted by students at the universities of Warsaw and Cracow marking the anniversary of a wave of antigovernment protest that swept the country in 1968. In both cities, several thousand people gathered downtown and demanded official recognition of the Independent Students' Union, banned when martial law was imposed in 1981. The Warsaw crowd was charged by hundreds of ZOMO riot police, who used three-foot truncheons to club demonstrators. In Cracow, several dozen students were reported injured, and more than 100 were detained...
...volume, Heidegger and Nazism, was written by Chilean Scholar Victor Farias and published in France after two West German houses rejected the manuscript. Although scholars have long known about Heidegger's early flirtation with National Socialism, he was generally thought to have become disenchanted with Hitler well before the outbreak of World War II. With new documentation, Farias charges that Heidegger, who died in 1976, was a lifelong anti-Semite and a devoted, dues-paying party member until the end of the war. Farias also notes that Heidegger went out of his way to praise Hitler to his colleagues...
...happen?" the German ex-Chancellor Prince von Bulow asked his successor at the outbreak of the First World...
...that American Jews should not criticize Israel. On the contrary, a proper perspective lends all the more urgency to the quandary which Moses correctly described. All lovers of the State of Israel must deplore the deaths and violence of the past few weeks, and the situation which triggered its outbreak. It is our duty to involve ourselves in Middle East political discourse. But before we criticize, we must make sure that we have our facts straight, and our hearts where they belong. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. A little love is even more dangerous. Harvard/Radcliffe Zionist Alliance: Jessica...
Perhaps because of the relative calm, seasoned terrorism experts in Belfast fear a fresh outbreak of violence. They know that the I.R.A. is deeply frustrated after nearly 20 years of fighting without achieving its main objective, British withdrawal. As the outrage shared by Catholics and Protestants alike over Enniskillen starts to fade, a new offensive could be in the works. "People are beginning to say that it hasn't changed a damn thing," says Ken Maginnis, Westminster M.P. for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, which includes Enniskillen. "Deep down, the mistrust between the two communities is still there." Says a Catholic...