Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called Six o'Clock News. Its inspiration: "I would visit my parents, and they would be watching the news, not knowing what was going on, just sitting there with the TV, lost." It is an 18-ft. by 27-ft. room -- in all, enough lint to fill a U-Haul van, ceiling to floor, which it does. It is like one of those Koren cartoons in The New Yorker -- everything and everybody is fuzzy -- except it is not at all funny...
...Secretary General U Thant feared that befriending the Biafrans would undermine his status with Nigeria and other member nations that felt threatened by tribal secession. Great Britain had extensive economic ties to her former colony and envisioned huge profits for British petroleum interests from the oil deposits recently discovered under Nigeria's Eastern Region--Biafra. Small wonder, then, that Prime Minister Harold Wilson "remarked that if a million lbos had to die to preserve the unity of Nigeria, well, that was not too high a price...
Disclosures of hypocrisy and moral laxity infect leadership from Washington to Wall Street, tainting even television evangelists and the Semper Fi U. S. Marines. Do the transgressions represent a general shunning of values that Americans have always held dear, or are they merely a temporary blot brought about by the mindless materialism of the '80s? See ETHICS...
...holds on to power, while the far- right Conservatives become the House of Assembly' s main opposition group. -- France is set to open the trial of former Gestapo Leader Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons." -- Reports from the Soviet and rebel sides of the Afghanistan war. -- How the new U. S. immigration law is affecting life in one Mexican town...
...U. S. ADVERTISING SALES DIRECTOR: Richard Heinemann