Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Hagerty saw "The Day After" television movie in 1984, he became terrified by the prospect of nuclear war, but recollections of his experience in Vietnam gave him hope for improvement...
...past month, as a political settlement ending decades of apartheid has inched within reach, Afrikaner and other militants have stepped up their resistance to the prospect of black majority rule. This is no mere wagon- circling exercise. This month a member of the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement will stand trial for the April assassination of Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and a popular top official of the A.N.C. Two prominent right-wing Conservative Party officials will be tried as co-conspirators in the murder. Meanwhile, Groenewald and three other former generals have come out of retirement...
...diehard right is alarmed at the very real prospect that in the coming month the government and the A.N.C. will reach a landmark accord. This week negotiators from 26 parties are expected to set the long-awaited date for South Africa's first free nonracial elections. That poll, expected to take place by next April, could elect Mandela President in a government of national unity. The Transitional Executive Council, the first stage of nonracial interim government, could be in place within the next few months...
...main parties persist in forming a transitional government, warned Groenewald, that could force whites to secede from South Africa. He refused to rule out leading an insurrection. It is an open question, he added, whether white-led government security forces would obey orders to suppress a white rebellion. That prospect worries many. Last week De Klerk acknowledged that he was only informed after the fact when the police cracked down on the militant Pan Africanist Congress and arrested 73 of its leaders. This move nearly threw negotiations off course again...
Somewhere between the prospect of a slow death in intensive care and a quick death at the hands of a doctor lies the vast middle ground. It is this middle ground, his critics charge, that Kevorkian in his single-minded focus on death, too often fails to explore. "Our experience says the great majority of the time these people are lonely, isolated and actually in need of better medical care rather than somebody to euthanatize them," says Harris of the American Academy of Medical Ethics...