Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oxford scholar Geza Vermes calls it "the academic scandal par excellence of the 20th century." Columbia University's Morton Smith protests that there is "no justification" for it. Fumes California State's Robert Eisenman: "We are tired of being treated contemptuously." Behind the scenes, scholars are exchanging bitter private letters and passing around bootlegged photos. What is all the fuss about? The protesters are referring to the long delay in making public many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, those mysterious documents discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem. As they see it, the world...
American experts find such revisionism a dramatic development. With establishment journals publishing criticism of Lenin, says Dimitri Simes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, "nothing about Communism is sacred any longer in the Soviet Union." Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute, does not expect Lenin to go from icon to archvillain. "Lenin will be given an honorary place in Soviet history as the founder of the country," says he. "Yet, just as U.S. historians can show the warts of George Washington, Soviet historians will be able to do the same with Lenin...
...Navy attack planes are shot down over Lebanon. One pilot is killed; Lieut. Robert Goodman is captured by Syrian forces (a month later, he is released). Later that day, nine Marines are fatally wounded during a heavy-artillery attack on their observation post near Beirut airport...
American Navy diver Robert Stethem is beaten and shot aboard hijacked TWA Flight 847, and his body is dumped on the tarmac at Beirut airport. Thirty- nine other American passengers and crew are held hostage for 17 days...
Executive Vice Presidents: Donald M. Elliman Jr., S. Christopher Meigher III, Robert L. Miller...