Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amid the turmoil, accusations began to surface that there may be yet another shock to come: that some of the profits of the arms-for-hostages deal may have ended up financing pro-contra political advertisements and perhaps even the campaigns of pro-contra congressional candidates. That charge is being made publicly by Democrats who have little evidence and obvious axes to grind, but it is a suspicion that is being voiced within the Executive Branch as well. According to one Government source, the Iranian arms profits were diverted into a political slush fund. According to another source close...
...keenly observes Britain's myriad social classes and offers a persuasive story of family obsession and revenge. Keith Heller attempts the double voyage of writing not only about England but about the early 18th century. His debut, Man's Illegal Life, was a tour de force about urban turmoil in the years before London had police (his detective, named George Man, is a sort of civic night watchman with an awesome sense of duty). Heller's second novel, Man's Storm (Scribner's; 196 pages; $13.95), is in the same vein and invokes in vivid detail the consequences...
...month. He hopes to attend the court proceedings next week, but as a precaution he gave videotaped testimony in September. "I'm really not thinking about a settlement anymore," he says. "I've been so sick lately." Still, by pressing his claim Shuttleworth will be helping resolve the legal turmoil that has been raised by a deadly epidemic...
...feelings about the turmoil. I have to say that there is bitter bile in my throat these days. I've never seen the sharks circling like they now are with blood in the water...
After a relatively calm summer, the mood of Haiti is turning sour again. Violent antigovernment protests have erupted over widespread unemployment, human rights abuses and, ominously, the founding of a political party by ) followers of the deposed Duvaliers. Adding to the turmoil, Haitians last week recoiled from a more immediate tragedy: an overcrowded ferry sank on the way to the island of La Gonave, with an estimated 180 passengers lost...