Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the provinces over education, health care, and energy issues. Trudeau's attempts to address the country's linguistic divisions by legislating bilingualism and giving French official language status antagonized the English-speaking provinces at a time when the Prime Minister was demanding more concessions of these same oil-rich Western provinces. All this from a man whose political power base was decidely French, Eastern, and generally anti-business...
Better educated than their parents, the young outspokenly criticize the system, not for its ideology but for its inefficiencies. Vladimir, 27, a worker in Siberia, wonders why the Soviet Union is rich in resources but "our products are shoddy and poor." Government and party also inspire less admiration when youths realize how much business is done through bribery and favoritism. The young are, above all, losing touch with the forces that drove their ancestors to embrace Communism. "Ours is a lost generation," says Larisa, 25, an artist in Leningrad. "For us there are no dreams, no illusions, only a hard...
When Bernard Francis Law '53 dons the miter as Boston's new archbishop on March 23, he will inherit an archdiocese rich in ethnic diversity and burdened with pressing social problems...
...Crown Prince Abdullah surprised U.S. officials with a declaration that the Marines ought to be getting Israeli forces out of Lebanon; publicly at least, the Saudis now seem to be less concerned that the U.S. is taking sides in the Lebanese maelstrom. Nonetheless, Saudi Arabia, like the other oil-rich states of the Persian Gulf, is always worried about any U.S. moves that might be construed as giving a boost to their three most feared enemies: Syria, Iran and the U.S.S.R. Said a member of the foreign ministry from one of the gulf states: "We do not want...
...SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, say that government agents provoked anti-Baha'i hysteria to divert reactionary Muslims from turning their fury against the Shah. Recalls a former SAVAK officer: "A lot of Muslim clergy, including many with high positions in the Khomeini regime, grew rich on SAVAK money, which they took to fight Bahaism and Communism." In the 1978 turmoil that preceded the Shah's departure, 40 people, both Baha'is and Muslims, were killed during rioting in Shiraz...