Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evil circumstances that, taken together, offer a cautionary illustration of just how hard it is for backward and impoverished societies to grope their way from national repression to political and civic liberty. Both are desperately poor: Haiti's per capita income of $393 is the lowest in the western hemisphere, while Burma's $197 makes it one of the least developed nations in the world. Both have been ruled for decades by egotistical and paranoid men of exceptional crueltywho deliberately cut their people off from the mainstream of progress and change in the rest of the world...
...these and other measures, the past decade has seen significant gains in freedom, especially in the western hemisphere. In the late 1970s, only two countries in South America, Colombia and Venezuela, had freely elected governments. Today only two, Paraguay and Chile...
...recent weeks the captors have been hinting that this time they just might be more reasonable. Since agreeing to a cease-fire in its war with Iraq, Tehran has been putting out feelers about ending its diplomatic isolation and obtaining Western help to rebuild its devastated economy. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the powerful speaker of the Majlis (parliament), has shown signs of recognizing that holding on to the hostages works against both goals...
...Iran and the terrorists continue to back away from extreme demands, however, they will raise again a torturous dilemma for which American and other Western officials have never found a satisfactory answer. Should they negotiate at all for the release of hostages? If so, when and with whom? Most important, how can they persuade the captors to release hostages without making concessions that seem to reward terrorism and encourage more hostage taking...
...Because Spain is so different from the rest of Western Europe it has discouraged scholars from studying it. As a result a major European film history has been ignored," he says. "For historic reasons this festival gives students a chance to walk through the atmosphere that was prevalent in Spain...