Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The bitter fruits of their campaign lie scattered across the roads of Algiers and the surrounding countryside: burned-out carcasses of buses, cars, buildings and factories. The fundamentalists consider anything or anyone connected with the "infidel state" to be a legitimate target. Miles of telephone poles lie felled. A few...
If Russia reverts to its traditional expansionist policies, in the absence of NATO, a nationalist state will be tempted to extend its control into the power vacuum to the west. But if the U.S. extends its security guarantees to the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians, Russia will find Eastern Europe...
Perhaps Auschwitz is simply too monstrous for passions to cool completely; perhaps 50 years' distance is not enough. Auschwitz was by far the worst of the Nazi concentration camps, containing the bones and ashes of the estimated 1.5 million of Hitler's victims who died there--1.1 million Jews, 75...
The Pope's day begins while Rome still sleeps, around 5:30, and does not end until 11:30 p.m. By 6:15 he is in his private chapel, praying and meditating before its altar, over which hangs a large bronze crucifix. Within sight is a copy of Poland's...
RONALD REAGAN IS A LIVING LEGEND FOR many outside the U.S., including the Poles and others in Eastern Europe. Reagan was an outstanding personality who destroyed communism with his strong policy. Who knows what might have happened to Eastern Europe if it had not been for Reagan? For many people...