Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INTERPRETATIONS COME quickly and thickly in the wake of Ronald Reagan's State of the Union message. Together, we can embark on a new beginning. The Union must stop growing, lest it begin to rot. Return responsibility to the grass roots and in the process root out the weeds. Invoking leaders as varied as Churchill, Lincoln, FDR and JFK, the president struck many poses. Four spring immediately to mind...
Wallace produced one of the most effective moments in the program when he confronted Westmoreland about his distortion of the enemy troop estimates in the wake of the Tet offensive. Wallace showed that, according to the government figures at the time, the entire North Vietnamese army had been wiped out in Tet. This was, of course, absurd; the North scored an important tactical victory by demonstrating the ability to stage attacks simultaneously in every important South Vietnamese city, and in any case went on fighting for some time thereafter. What the documentary failed to mention, however, was that the illogic...
Summing up the mood of fear and depression that has gripped the country in the wake of the clampdown, one young Warsaw man said, "There is a lot of talk now among students of a 'lost generation.' We now know that in our lifetime we will not be able to lead a normal life...
...call seven days a week, so Bob flies in to spend two weeks with her every month. The rest of the marriage is conducted by telephone. They talk six or seven times a day, and last month their phone bill was $800. "I tuck her in at night and wake her up in the morning," says Bob, who stays accessible to Kaity at all times through various paging and answering services. "There is nothing good about separation, but we refuse to let it be an obstacle," he says. "She thinks I'm cute and I'm in love...
...Hornik was in Gdansk on Dec. 13 when martial law was declared. He has watched General Jaruzelski try to subdue the country and has seen the Poles react and resist. Shortly after leaving Poland last week, Hornik filed this report on what life is like in Warsaw in the wake of the crackdown...