Word: unwittingness
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His last attempts at manipulation were unwitting acts in a black comedy. When his mother died in Manila, Marcos refused to give permission for her burial, using her corpse to prod the government of Corazon Aquino into allowing him to return to mourn. He was turned down. In December 1988...
In the days before the attack, the government began to show its desperation. It organized antiliberal rallies that became unwitting parodies of the strident Red Guard style of the '60s. The authorities tried to rein in the press. Foreign correspondents were warned to stop covering student activities, but few reporters...
By 1988, Pons and Fleischmann were focusing much of their attention on the quest for cold fusion. But they were not alone. At Brigham Young, a team headed by physicist Steven Jones had been working on a similar experiment for at least two years. Jones had also found evidence of...
Critics have stigmatized the proposed deal as "Yalta II," a repetition of Franklin Roosevelt's unwitting sellout of Eastern Europe in 1945. The State Department bureaucracy is unanimously (though anonymously) convinced that a superpower negotiation on the fate of Europe would offend the Europeans. Last month James Baker publicly floated...
The U.S. sources say the investigation has narrowed down to between five and ten passengers. One of these is Khalid Jaafar, a Lebanese-American student en route from Frankfurt to Detroit to visit his parents. They say he could not be the unwitting bomber, as a photograph taken before his...