Word: specter
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Fugard, a white South African, sets the play in his native country in 1950, a time when the specter of apartheid was practically ignored by, if not unknown to, much of the rest of the world. The pain and anger expressed sounds a chillingly realistic note, as we share the author's largely autobiographical introspection...
Hong Kong. The specter of a possible takeover by China when Britain's lease on most of Hong Kong expires in 1997 has shaken the colony. Hong Kong real estate prices have plunged by as much as two-thirds during the past 18 months. The Carrian group, one of Hong Kong's largest property developers, has collapsed, and the government has assumed control of the Hang Lung Bank, which was faltering partly because of bad real estate loans...
...specter of American military intervention has long been brandished by leftist governments, such as the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, and by revolutionary movements seeking to stir anti-American sentiment. Nicaraguan newspapers last week published a list of all U.S. interventions in Central America since 1854, when the U.S. Navy destroyed the Nicaraguan port of San Juan del Norte to avenge an insult to the American minister. Until now, such propaganda seemed shopworn. "This would appear to prove everything the Sandinistas have been saying about the intentions of the U.S. here," one American official in Managua said last week. "It gives...
...Luther's views on the Catholic Church have come to be accepted even by many Catholics, his anti-Semitic views remain a problem for even his most devoted supporters. Says New York City Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum: "The anniversary will be marred by the haunting specter of Luther's devil theory of the Jews...
...specter of the bruised and bloody body of Benigno Aquino would not go away. At every turn last week, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos appeared to be moving through a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions welling up from the assassination of his chief political rival. President Reagan canceled his plans to visit the Philippines, and the estranged Philippine business community was only reluctantly taking steps to help Marcos out of a gathering financial crisis, which last week led to a 21.4% devaluation of the peso. From a former U.S. Ambassador to both Iran and the Philippines, meanwhile, came a blunt warning that...