Word: wings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peace initiative." Yet Shamir's labored efforts at spin control could neither disguise the fact that he had sacrificed his fledgling peace plan to his own political survival nor hide the painful truth that as long as that is his primary aim, Shamir will be vulnerable to right-wing pressure...
...move that brings the History Department closer to refilling its depopulated American wing, President Derek C. Bok last month extended tenure offers to two American historians from outside universities...
...professor said the appointment could signala growing feeling of urgency in the departmentbecause of the depletion of scholars in theAmerican wing, a problem which will be exacerbatedin coming years because of impending retirements...
Hungary has no parallel to Solidarity's opposition, and what does exist is dominated by intellectuals. Instead, the push toward democracy is being led from within the Communist Party by members of its reform wing, most prominently by Politburo member Imre Pozsgay. At a meeting of the party's Central Committee last weekend, Pozsgay was nominated to become the country's new state President as soon as constitutional changes imbue that office with real power. The party's other leading reformer, Rezso Nyers, was tapped as party chairman. The moves diluted the power of General Secretary Karoly Grosz, who until...
...past two years the Philippine government has supported scores of right- wing vigilante groups in their war against the Communist guerrillas of the New People's Army. Among them are Protestants in the tiny village of Rano in the southern Philippines, most of whom belong to a paramilitary cult that refused to pay "revolutionary taxes" to N.P.A. Last week, as Sunday-morning services began, vengeful N.P.A. guerrillas sprayed the chapel with 970 rounds from M-14s. At least 40 people were killed, including eleven children and two pregnant women. The rebels also stole the collection, about...