Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Matthiessen frames his story in the buffetings of tides and storms. Not for nothing is Watson slaughtered shortly after the passage of Halley's comet and a mighty hurricane. The weather is always restless, "the wild tread of God" often heard and felt. Occasionally the terrain gets cluttered. But Matthiessen is a man who can write his way out of any storm. What an old-timer says of his wood pony applies equally to Matthiessen: He can "turn on a dime and give back nine cents change." On a good day, maybe even eleven...
Judith Miller's challenging thesis is that many countries remember the Holocaust in different ways, and from these different perceptions come different distortions of what the Holocaust actually was. A veteran reporter and editor for the New York Times, Miller pursues her thesis over a lot of familiar terrain -- the Barbie trial, the Waldheim election -- but when she ventures off the beaten track, which she does fairly often, she discovers some very interesting things. Like the fact that the Dutch government still pays a pension of about $11,000 a year to the widow of the country's deputy Nazi...
What's going on here? The political terrain is shifting, and the smartest Republicans are scampering to keep pace. "The electorate's composition is % changing," says a G.O.P. strategist. "The baby boomers are taking over, and their credo is 'Live and let live.' " A move to the left could alienate Bush's base of antiabortion conservatives, he acknowledges, "but those people will probably stay with us in the end, and we'll need the young libertarians...
...best way to begin mapping the conceptual terrain that lies beyond containment is to re-examine the premises of containment itself...
...plan called for overwhelming American forces to intimidate and neutralize the P.D.F. while special units secured vital dams and the electrical facilities powering the Panama Canal. Once organized resistance had been shattered, military police and other units trained in MOUT -- military operations in urban terrain -- would undertake the house-to-house battle against the Dignity Battalions. At Southern Command Headquarters in Panama City, the arrival of General Maxwell Thurman last Oct. 1 brought a marked change in mood. Unlike his predecessor, General Frederick Woerner, Thurman saw Noriega as primarily a military rather than a political problem. According to Pentagon sources...