Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerusalem last week ABC created a sort of demilitarized zone as Ted Koppel's late-night news program, Nightline, broadcast five nights of on-the-scene shows. The topics were the recent violence in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as other issues fueling the tragic conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. American TV once again was playing diplomat as well as journalist. And if the results were unlikely to be as dramatic as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1977 trip to Jerusalem (spurred by a few well-timed questions from CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite), the venture brought...
...gang wars have now become material for Hollywood entertainment. Dennis Hopper's Colors, an already controversial film about Los Angeles cops battling dope-dealing thugs, premieres this week. But no movie could convey the tragic impact of gang brutality on the lives of ghetto families. Consider the case of Peggy Graham, the mother of Stacey Childress. Last November another son, Ermond Easley Jr., 16, was fatally shot in the head and chest while standing a few blocks from the Coliseum. In February, Graham's 19-year-old brother Walter Dirks was murdered by two men who were trying to steal...
Last week Henson received a belated honor when his remains were reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery. The black pioneer now rests next to Peary under a granite marker. Declared Allen Counter, who led the effort to honor the explorer: "We are assembled here today to right a tragic wrong. Welcome home, Matt Henson...
...issue of whether to invest in firms operating in South Africa offers the ultimate example of the difficulties of trying to demonstrate a serious concern for moral standards. The problems of South Africa are far too tragic and inflammatory to escape bitter controversy, whatever a university decides to do. Student activists will claim that officials who oppose total divestment are insensitive to the injustices of apartheid, while conservative critics insist that selling stock is only an empty and expensive gesture to appease irresponsible radicals. In this atmosphere, divestment can easily acquire such emotional, symbolic importance that is difficult to examine...
...Gladys P. Gifford, a Coalition member, called Harvard's decision a "tragic response for the neighborhood, and one that would spoil its own nest...