Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both political and personal reasons, Kohl was determined to resist changing plans for the Bitburg ceremony. As the first West German Chancellor to spend his entire adult life in the postwar era, he has made a crusade of restoring West Germany to full international legitimacy. To have backed away from Bitburg, in his view, would have been to falter in that quest. The Chancellor was also acutely aware that a change in plans seemingly dictated by Washington would have opened him to a charge of weak leadership. One public- opinion poll taken at the height of the controversy showed...
...NOVEITY OF British band with something to say started to wear of about the time (1979) punks and wavers appeared in my hometown. Seattle Once you have caught the fancy of the moneyed suburbs, the price on your integrity becomes too big to resist: I knew that if Seattle had discovered British protest bands, their days were numbered. Three years later, Paul, Welfer--the prototypical Angry Young Man--cashed in the Jam's inarticulate outrage for the smooth sounds of cabaret Jazz at the same time that Boy George--the painted mockery of preening masculinity--snared the attention of transatlantic...
...minute interview with Crimson editor David S. Hilzemath. Wallace called on the media to resist being intimidated by the threat of libel suits. Escerpts from that interview fellow...
...college students looking for jobs, the ads in newspapers across the country offering starting salaries as high as $25,000 are hard to resist. Thousands are lining up to interview for employment as "case officers in human intelligence" for the once reviled "Company" known as the CIA. Yet even as the recruiting figures are rising--the rate of job inquiries has more than doubled since the early 1970s--so are protests over the presence of CIA representatives on campus. Last week 450 demonstrators were arrested at the University of Colorado in Boulder as they attempted to disrupt the interviews...
Under the so-called new civil defense concept, the government has begun to rely on 7,000 better prepared volunteers to provide a visible, continuous security presence in 47 towns and villages. The forces are not expected to hold off a major attack, but to resist just long enough for armed helicopters and regular troops to come to their aid. While the program has proved its value in at least half a dozen guerrilla raids since last fall, it is just getting under way in some areas. In Santa Cruz Loma, the civil defense squad did have automatic rifles...