Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...significant that the meaning of historical events has frequently been obscured, not by the real historian but by social scientists who sought abortively to bring history into the realms of nature and thus deny the characteristically historical aspects of the human scene. In short, our culture has been intent upon equating history with nature at the precise moment when history revealed the dangerous possibilities of human freedom, which were not at all like nature...
...violence in the already besieged occupied territories. In Gaza, where al-Wazir had lived as a teenager, there were protests and memorial services for the slain official of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Seven Palestinians were killed and scores wounded in clashes with Israeli soldiers. In the West Bank the scene was somewhat less violent but no less angry. Palestinians flew black flags and crowded the mosques to read commemorative phrases from the Koran. Still, tensions resulted in five deaths, making last Saturday's total death toll of at least twelve the highest daily count since the Palestinian uprisings began last...
...American Scene...
Afterward, hundreds of people threw stones at police, who responded with rubber bullets and clubs, Associated Press photographer Max Nash reported from the scene...
...speech to the group, billed as a scene-setter for the upcoming summit, Reagan proclaimed a "period of realistic engagement" between the United States and the Soviet Union...