Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death squads. Amnesty International issued a report last month charging that government security forces were responsible for a significant increase in killings and disappearances in the past two years. Moreover, despite $3 billion in U.S. military and economic assistance since 1981, living standards have declined. Malnutrition is on the rise, basic services are deteriorating, and joblessness hovers around 50%. Official corruption remains endemic...
...MARCOS DYNASTY by Sterling Seagrave (Harper & Row; $22.50). This merciless account of the Filipino dictator's rise and fall poses many intriguing questions and answers some of them. Why did Ferdinand purloin billions of dollars? What did Imelda want with all those shoes...
Sloan, who also appeared in "The Ruling Class" and "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui," adds that Eva is not afraid of using any and everyone to get what she wants. "I think that's the point of the play--we're all using one another so we can't point the finger at anyone. I don't think that's anyone's life motto. But everyone has bad things about them, and hopefully everyone has good things about them too," she says...
...rock opera chronicles the meteoric rise of Argentina's Eva Peron, who began with "every disadvantage you need if you're gonna succeed./No money, no class, no father." Before she died at 33, Eva had risen to prominence as an actress, married military leader Juan Peron, helped him become Argentina's president and achieved near-sainthood in the eyes of the working class, known as the descamisados or "shirtless ones...
...speech, Jenninger described Hitler's rise to power as a "triumphal procession" for many Germans, but also stressed his own record of opposing totalitarian regimes...