Word: war
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Bok, in his Massachusetts Hall office, and Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, across the yard in University Hall, will communicate by fax. The two buildings are less than 500 feet apart, but each is equipped with its own fax machines. Like forts stocked for war, they are prepared to do administrative battle...
Czechoslovakia, one of Israel's strongest supporters after the Jewish state was founded in 1948, broke off ties over objections to the 1967 ArabIsraeli war...
...Cold War is over, and we won," proclaimed the Doonesbury comic strip. Countless op-ed columns and political speeches rely upon the same assumption: capitalism has triumphed, and Eastern Europe is about to become the next outpost of Reaganstyle laissez-faire...
...late 1988, as Emperor Hirohito lay dying, Nagasaki Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima broke a widely observed taboo by criticizing the once deified leader. "I experienced military life," said Motoshima in response to a question in the city assembly, "and I believe the Emperor had responsibility for the war." Last week the 67-year-old mayor paid for that statement, very nearly with his life. As Motoshima stepped out of city hall, a gunman shot him in the lung from behind. At week's end the mayor was in stable condition...
...Turks recently offered to make electric power available to Syria and Iraq from the huge 22-dam Anatolia project, due for completion in 2005. Over the long term, the offer may cool tempers, but in the next few weeks the simmering water war could get hotter as Syria and Iraq get dryer...