Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This seems to portend more than what follows, which is a long, fairly routine mini-series of a novel. Without appearing to have much on his mind, the author follows the adventures of three families -- one Welsh, one Russian- American, one Jewish-English -- through three wars. The founding patriarch is a young ship's cook, a Welshman named David Jones, first seen surviving the sinking of the Titanic. He meets and marries a beautiful Russian immigrant named Ludmila in New York City, resettles in England, volunteers for the army, is mistakenly reported dead in World War...
HOME FIRES BURNING (CBS, Jan. 29, 9 p.m. EST). A small-town Southern family sees its comfortable life changed by World War II. Barnard Hughes and Sada Thompson star in this Hallmark Hall of Fame drama...
INCLINE OUR HEARTS by A.N. Wilson (Viking; $17.95). A London child is orphaned by German bombs during World War II and sent to live with relatives in the English countryside. What follows is a seriocomic autobiographical novel about coming of age in an age deucedly difficult to understand...
...drop-out-or-die ultimatums are an aggressive attempt to rectify a long- standing rebel problem. Although the F.M.L.N. has fought the 56,000-man Salvadoran armed forces to a stalemate during nine years of civil war, it has accumulated no sustained political influence. Now, two months before presidential elections, the insurgents have hit on a way to make their presence felt in nearly every town and village...
...rebel offensive is timed to remind voters that the F.M.L.N. remains a force to be reckoned with. The election of moderate President Jose Napoleon Duarte in 1984 seemed to promise an end to the grueling war. But failed talks with the rebels and charges of official corruption have dissipated the popularity of Duarte's Christian Democratic Party. ARENA has strongly rebounded and seems likely to corner the votes this time. But many observers foresee a runoff for the presidency between ARENA's Alfredo Cristiani and the Christian Democratic candidate Fidel Chavez Mena...