Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle East captures the attention of Americans like no other region of the world. It fascinates, enthralls, captivates...
Striking pictures from the region are featured nightly on the evening news. We sit, glued to our television sets, gasping in wonder at the complexities and conflicts of a world so different from ours...
Friedman, who spent five years covering Beirut and four years covering Jerusalem for The New York Times, details his experiences in the Middle East. These are the experiences of an American fascinated with the region but shocked when the reality he finds there is strikingly different from that which the media portrays...
FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.95). A Pulitzer-prizewinning Middle East correspondent looks back on the brutal realities of a region drenched in myths and bloodshed...
...children have been eating contaminated food from local stores and contend that government limits for radiation are too high. In an article titled "Mysterious Medicine: People with Chernobyl Experience Have No Faith in Doctors' Diagnoses," Moscow News reported that Soviet doctors refuse to attribute any health problem in the region to radiation. Dependent on Moscow for funding, local officials hope some support will come from Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, who has reportedly "listened attentively" to their complaints...