Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During twelve years of civil war, foreign correspondents came to rely on the Commodore Hotel in West Beirut as a respite from the turmoil around them. Feuding militia leaders held press conferences there, and a string of hopeful peace envoys were among its guests. The Commodore's lively bar was renowned throughout the Middle East as a meeting place for those passing through Beirut. It was also the home of a parrot whose uncannily accurate imitation of an incoming artillery shell fooled more than a few newly arrived reporters. While cross fire occasionally damaged the aging seven-story edifice...
...dollars' worth of stock from his firm's trading accounts before his misdeeds were made known. To many Wall Streeters, it almost seemed as if Boesky had profited from inside knowledge of his own downfall, while other, more honest arbitragers lost an estimated $2 billion in the subsequent market turmoil. The latest arrests, says Daniel Bergstein, a senior partner at the Manhattan law firm Finley Kumble Wagner Heine & Underberg, "are a reaction to claims that the SEC was treating the investment-banking community different from other white-collar criminals...
...Amid the turmoil, the Reagan Administration must try to persuade the new Democratic Congress this week to release the last installment of $100 million in aid that was granted to the contras last year. To win release of the final $40 million, the Administration must assure lawmakers that the current rebel leadership is representative of Nicaragua's democratic opposition, even as two of the movement's three directors are threatening to resign. "As things stand now, we can't certify that the leadership is what it should be," says an Administration official. "It's a very, very serious problem...
...Riyadh, but he adamantly denies them. "Having heard so much revolutionary rhetoric, I can really appreciate what the Saudi government did for its people," he says. "King Fahd is the real revolutionary, after all. It takes a revolutionary to rule by common sense and compassion in the midst of turmoil...
Aquino remains enormously popular, especially at the international level. She is not so much a politician as a star, a heroine who has won over the public with her honest simplicity. While turmoil swirls around her, Aquino is untouched...