Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent interview,Days of Thunder producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer(Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop I and II, Top Gun) swore that they had balked at the prospect of making a sequel to their fabulously successful Top Gun. Well, they lied...
...prospect of further change that those concessions open up is one reason that Mandela's life -- and De Klerk's -- could be at risk. A South African newspaper, Vrye Weekblad, last week reported that it had uncovered a right- wing plot to murder Mandela, De Klerk and other figures. According to the paper, the plot was worked out by former Nazi Captain Heinrich Beissner, a regional head of the right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement. It called for Mandela to be shot by a sniper at Johannesburg's Jan Smuts Airport when he returned to South Africa on July...
...That prospect is sending a shiver of fear through the Arab world. The Algerian election represents the first time that Muslim fundamentalists have obtained a majority in a free vote in an Arab country. While some Arab leaders are flirting with reforms, most continue to cloak their disdain for democracy with self-serving warnings about the threat of fundamentalism. Algeria's returns are certain to support convictions that even a little democracy is too risky a gamble...
...outcome in Algeria is certain to provide a boost for Islamic movements elsewhere. The prospect that haunts is a militant tide that topples unpopular regimes and replaces them with fundamentalist theocracies. Some leaders are beginning to recognize that the most effective safeguard against radical fundamentalism -- or any other dogmatism -- may be to garner the consent of the governed. Among the countries that have taken tentative steps toward such reforms...
There is no prospect that Washington will soon cancel the trade embargoes Congress put in place in 1986, and George Bush will probably tell Mandela as much during their planned meeting at the White House. Europe, however, is wavering. Officials of the European Community say they detect movement toward "rewarding" the De Klerk government for its reforms...