Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Angola's civil war, a conflict that has devastated the country and taken the lives of an estimated 100,000 people, began when the Portuguese colonial government pulled out in 1975. The Marxist leadership in Luanda immediately accepted military and economic aid from the Soviet Union and troop support from Cuba; UNITA turned for help to the U.S. and South Africa. With neither side able to prevail in an increasingly costly and bloody contest, the first step toward conciliation was finally taken last December. After eight years of U.S.-brokered negotiations, South Africa agreed to grant independence to Namibia...
...provision sure to draw a legal test on separation of church and state, the bill would issue vouchers to parents for use in day-care centers that offer religious instruction. To win the support of Republican Senators, ABC would create a tax credit for the costs of care and child health insurance, adding to the federal deficit as much as $10.3 billion in lost tax revenues in five years...
...argument goes, should not be the judge of art. What shocks one generation -- a Madonna set in a shabby tenement, for example -- is treasured by a later one. Moreover, art that flouts convention by dealing with the extremities of the human condition is the work most in need of support...
...laser artist is making plans to project images of Mapplethorpe's photos on the Corcoran Gallery's facade. By canceling the Mapplethorpe show, the Corcoran's Orr-Cahall hoped to deflate the flap and engender serious reflection about what is art, what is not and what the Government should support. Those, she admits, are questions to which "no one has yet found answers...
Although Communist party leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski has attempted to draw Solidarity into a coalition, the trade-union movement insists it will remain in opposition until completely free elections are held. Solidarity has agreed to cooperate on pressing matters such as economic reform, but seems unlikely to support Jaruzelski's candidacy for the newly created presidency. Solidarity is hoping that the Communist party will avoid a showdown on the presidency by nominating someone other than Jaruzelski. Said an aide to Lech Walesa: "There has to be someone they can put up who is acceptable to both sides...