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When first word of the assassination began to spread across the country--from a 12:34 p.m. (CST) UPI bulletin and a coatless Walter Cronkite interrupting the afternoon soap operas--the specter of conspiracy began to surface...
...easier to draw a line between the President and his critics. They are joined by a common fear: that history will repeat itself. They disagree as to precisely what history is about to be repeated, but everyone is quick to raise the specter of the return of some dreaded "another." The critics see another Viet Nam here, another round of gunboat diplomacy (carried out by another Teddy Roosevelt) there. Administration officials are quoted as explaining that the Grenada invasion was meant variously to prevent "another Iran," "another Beirut"(!), "another Nicaragua" or "another Suriname." (There is irony here. Suriname had fallen...
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...