Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...change China's human right's policies at all," says TIME's Oscar Chiang. "The government blocked out all internal media reports about her speech. Later, they may criticize her for meddling in China's internal affairs, but right now their strategy is to just keep quiet...
...bargaining with Israel is futile. (Negotiators are now hoping that they will be able to conclude the talks in September.) Second, Hamas leaders had expected that during the cease-fire, Ara fat's forces would stop harassing them, but this was not the case. And last, despite the relative quiet, Israel continued to clamp tight restrictions on Palestinian day laborers, ignoring objections from the Authority. That took some of the onus for economic hardship off Hamas. "The Palestinian masses realize now that it's not Hamas' attacks that cause their suffering," says "Faris," a Hamas guerrilla in the West Bank...
Baghdad has rushed to confess because Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam's son-in-law and the senior general in charge of his nuclear and biological weapons programs, defected to Jordan on Aug. 8. Saddam knew he couldn't keep Hussein Kamel quiet, so he decided to try to make points with the U.N. by producing a flood of information on the weapons program. The day after Hussein Kamel defected, the chairman of the U.N. special commission on Iraq, Rolf Ekeus, received a letter from Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz summoning him to Baghdad for "new and important revelations...
...Things have been quiet recently in Georgia, but there are a lot of problems," saysMoscow bureau chief John Kohan. "The economy has broken down, and Shevardnadze is struggling to establish a strong central authority." The bombing, he adds, illustrates the difficulty of theformer Soviet foreign minister'scurrent job. "In some ways it's been harder for Shevardnadze to bring peace to his own country than it was to help end the Cold...
Evolutionary psychology thus helps explain why modern feminism got its start after the suburbanization of the 1950s. The landmark 1963 book The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan grew out of her 1959 conversation with a suburban mother who spoke with "quiet desperation" about the anger and despair that Friedan came to call "the problem with no name" and a doctor dubbed "the housewife's syndrome." It is only natural that modern mothers rearing children at home are more prone to depression than working mothers, and that they should rebel...