Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christian Democratic Party. Leighton commanded immense prestige both in Chile and among the vast exile movement of professional politicians, unionists, former state officials, and former military officers. After the junta learned that Leighton was perhaps close to unifying the exile movement behind a government-in-exile, gunfire on a quiet Rome street badly crippled him and his wife...
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 48, is a quiet, slightly built Argentine whose shy smile and modest appearance belie an iron resolve: he is a dedicated champion of Latin America's poor and oppressed, and, by proxy, of Argentina's 6,000 desaparecidos-"those who disappeared," most either kidnaped or liquidated in the Argentine military's harsh, four-year-long antiterrorism drive. As such, Pérez Esquivel is an avowed nonviolent foe of the ruling junta in Buenos Aires. As a result of last week's Nobel honors, he is now, irony of ironies...
Though Vellucci declined to say whom he would meet, explaining that Harvard officials had asked him to keep the session "quiet," sources speculated that he would sit down with a member of the University's Board of Overseers...
They're not rioting in the streets of Sherbrooke or burning buildings in Victoria. They're not building up an extensive military arsenal in the nation's capital or steeling themselves for struggle in the rural towns. Instead, Canada is undergoing a quiet revolution, with the country's leader trying to "patriate" the constitution and the provincial premiers attempting to thwart at all cost a peculiar brand of federalism...
...THAT DOES NOT diminish the undercurrent of change, the quiet revolution. Court battles on the constitution's particulars could last years. Paradoxically, a new constitution would offer strong provincial premiers a central outlet for griping, an unmoveable target. The national Conservatives could play on local sentiment and run a Reagan-like campaign, pledging to "restore" power to the provinces. Levesque's Parti Quebecois will doubtless try to capitalize on any pro-Anglophone or pro-West articles in the constitution; other provinces could rail against concessions to Quebec. The possibility of a wealthy province like Alberta withdrawing from a revised federation...