Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Films from the Franco era try to demonstrate in subtle ways the hypocrisy of the time. They cover broad themes like the sham morality of the bourgeoisie and the public's general insensitivity to social problems. These themes isolate Spain from other Western European countries, Pressberg says...
...critics charge that the American companiesare moving beyond parity with Asian tobaccocompanies. The multinationals are spending hugeamounts of money on advertising, some in countrieswhere cigarette advertising was recentlylegalized. They are also distributing free samplesand using other promotional techniques now bannedin most Western nations...
...perhaps even comparable to the influence of the Egyptians on Mediterranean cultures. Moche experts ranked the Peruvian find with the discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922. Said Anthropologist Christopher B. Donnan of the University of California, Los Angeles: "This is the richest tomb ever excavated in the Western Hemisphere...
...biggest storm of the century in the western hemisphere devastates Jamaica and parts of Mexico and sends thousands of Gulf Coast residents fleeing for safety. Jamaica' s hard- won social and economic recovery is threatened. -- A scorecard for judging the candidate debate. -- The next President must respond to Gorbachev with new thinking of his own: a campaign essay...
Given the gravity of the situation, the quip seemed inappropriate at best. "I was struck by the fact that you haven't brought your gas masks with you," Iraqi Defense Minister Adnan Khairallah chided Western journalists assembled in Baghdad. Yet when pressed, Khairallah was unable to deny categorically the allegation that Iraq employed chemical weapons -- outlawed by the 1925 Geneva Protocol -- in putting down a rebellion of Kurds. Asserting that the use of poison gas was "technically impossible" in the Kurdish villages in dispute, Khairallah reiterated Baghdad's position that, in any case, its war against the Kurds...