Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commitment to a "society of truth," but speaking in a painfully slow, sometimes slurred voice, Boris Yeltsin told an interviewer on prime-time TV that he would be having heart surgery at the end of the month. The news was greeted calmly in Moscow and with quiet relief by Western diplomats, who have long said they would like to see either a healthy President or a new one. Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and National Security Adviser Alexander Lebed, the two most prominent candidates to be Yeltsin's successor, were deferentially silent. In the background, however, it was not difficult...
Rosenstraus is the longest and oldest resident in this hamlet of 50 people, an unincorporated settlement near the town of Hancock in western New York. She was born, raised and still lives in the same house...
Civil war historian/baseball guru William E. Gienapp's seminar on the American pastime? Maximum enrollment: 20. Newly-recruited North-western University professor Jane Mansbridge's class on race, gender and politics? Just...
...exact form of the Western reaction to Saddam Hussein is unclear. Said a Washington policymaker candidly on Saturday: "Right now we're trying to figure out what direction we should take." While the range of options includes military action either in northern Iraq or in the whole country, the White House prefers for the present to work on the diplomatic front. Saddam has been lobbying the international community, with some success, to loosen the U.N.'s economic sanctions against Iraq. The U.S. and other Western powers, though, are likely now to press even harder to maintain the sanctions. Being...
...example, on Aug. 16 one of Farrakhan's top aides, Minister Tony Muhammad, prophesied that within 30 days "the wrath of God will show itself in a major earthquake" because the Muslims had been evicted from their Western regional headquarters in Inglewood, California. This may be the first time since the Old Testament that anyone has called on the Lord to get involved in a real estate dispute--and set a deadline for his seismic intervention...