Word: weekly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Year cover stories and 91 other covers on subjects ranging from Henry Ford to gun control and from the future of capitalism to Pete Rose's gambling problems. In September, George moved to the World section, where he writes on such subjects as the gulf crisis and this week's sudden turn of events on the Soviet political scene...
...Church's many gifts is his writing speed. "It's late in the week, news is breaking, correspondents are scrambling, and George has this ability to absorb enormous quantities of material," says World editor Jim Kelly. "He then puts it together in a way that readers can understand and enjoy." Moreover, Church's memory could shame an elephant. "He reads things once, including a correspondent's files, and remembers them damn near forever," a fellow writer, Ed Magnuson, complains cheerfully. While at a baseball game last summer, Magnuson asked Church if he could recall his first visit to a ball...
...fact, before he became East Germany's first -- and last -- freely elected head of government in April 1990, De Maiziere was once a professional violist. After a nerve ailment ended his orchestral career, he took to defending dissidents in court against the Communists who then ruled the East. Last week he resigned as Minister Without Portfolio from Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government after he was labeled with another vocation: informant...
...archives, some material still lies in sacks, a reminder of the confusing citizens' takeover of Stasi headquarters in the early days of the East German revolution. Last week rules were issued that permitted access to those charged with collaborating with the Stasi and those seeking rehabilitation from past slanders, among others. So far, several inquiries have been government background checks. Security and intelligence agencies are barred from the files...
...sermon-like speeches that antagonized his enemies and mesmerized his followers, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide often described his movement as a lavalas, the Haitian term for a cleansing avalanche that will wash away tyranny and corruption. That image was particularly relevant last week, as a political lavalas carried the 37-year-old Roman Catholic priest to an overwhelming victory in Haiti's first truly democratic presidential elections...