Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military strike against Iran would probably doom U.S. hopes to build bridges to Tehran. Any American military action could isolate Washington from Arab countries just as the U.S. is engaged in the delicate process of urging Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate a peaceful settlement concerning the occupation of the West Bank. Such action would also play directly into the hands of Israeli hard-liners. On Friday P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat opened a congress in Tunis of Al Fatah, the P.L.O.'s chief guerrilla group, the first such meeting since 1980. The discussions may prove critical because Arafat's public...
Once over the border, the destitute refugees are met by members of a government task force and assigned to sprawling tent cities to begin the painful process of resettlement. With unemployment in Turkey over 15%, the hardest task is finding them jobs. Even after inducing firms to give the uprooted Turks priority, the government has succeeded in providing employment for fewer than...
...demythifying process, argues Nina Tumarkin, professor of history at Wellesley College and author of The Cult of Lenin, is necessary if the Soviet Union is to right itself. "Lenin is being brought down to earth to make way for the new myths of perestroika," she says. If Gorbachev's political reform is more than a myth and the government is able to find its legitimacy in increased democracy, it might not need Lenin anymore...
...play is the thinking person's Fatal Attraction, a reflection of the fear between men and women and a kind of intellectual striptease. It's also about the West's fear of how its relationship with the East is changing. Sophisticated American whites realize their group is in the process of changing from an outright majority to just a plurality in the U.S., and are beginning to be ready to hear what the rest of us think...
...institute 54 reforms to the 1980 constitution. A lopsided majority of 85.7% of the voters approved the measures, which clear the way for an elected government. Among them: legalization of nonviolent Marxist parties, ratification of all international human-rights laws signed by the Chilean government, and a simplified process of enacting future reforms. Only 8.2% of the voters rejected the reforms, while a mere 6.3% abstained...