Word: tional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their tradition of free movement in public places, Americans may be particularly unsuited to coping with a state of siege. Says Peter White of the Southern Center for International Studies in Atlanta: "A lot of talk about terrorism can make a lot of people see terrorists everywhere." Such na tional fear is exactly what the terrorist seeks. Advises a top State Department official: "I guess it's like living with the Bomb. You know it's out there, but you can't worry about it every...
...Whether or not it is true," he says, "most people you deal with assume that the secret police will find out they were talking to an American journalist, and will not cross certain conversa tional red lines. Speaking critically about President Assad can be dangerous, especially mentioning that he is a member of the power ful minority religious group, the Alawites." By drawing on the in formation of private and understandably wary sources, plus the views of diplomats in Damascus and Palestinian officials with close ties in Syria, Suro was able nonetheless to carpenter together a remarkably candid portrait...
...worry though. He has scarcely settled into his uncomfortable regimen be fore he has bedded one of his therapists and received his first hints of the interna tional conspiracy that will preoccupy him for the rest of this loose-jointed remake of Thunderball. Once again, the scenario has something to do with the theft of nuclear warheads and their use as a blackmail weapon. The plot's mastermind is played with silky, neurotic charm by Klaus Maria Brandauer (so fine in Mephisto), while as his chief agent provocateur, Barbara Carrera deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered...
...done," wrote Dr. Lewis Thomas, chancellor of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "we will be stuck forever with this insupportably expensive, ethically puzzling halfway technology." But preventing heart disease, as Thomas readily admits, is a long way off. Says Dr. William Friedewald, associate director of the Na tional Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: "Of course, our goal is prevention, to have no Barney Clarks in the future, but right now that's pipe-dreaming...
...information, from stock and bond quotes for banks and brokerage houses, to telephone conversations, to sitcoms and first-run movies for networks and cable TV companies. Telesat's new Anik C3 will speed the flood along by strengthening Canadian telephone service, as well as by bringing addi tional pay television programming to cable operators and, through them, to the homes of cable TV subscribers throughout Canada. Meanwhile, SBS's satellite, SBS-3, will be targeted toward the U.S. market, offering long-distance direct-dial service to consumers at rates lower than...