Word: adele
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cornelia Hoy on the big night will gather up her sugar cookies, spread a little cream-cheese frosting on them and go on down to the Raccoon Valley State Bank's community room in Adel, a town rejuvenated by yuppies who live there and work in Des Moines. She will meet precinct Co-Chairwoman Jean Siegrist, and they will check the coffeemaker, open up the doors and wait for their fellow Republicans to arrive. When the greetings are over, they will bring the caucus to order and ask their neighbors to cast the secret ballot that is the crucial straw...
...Lebanon, meanwhile, the U.S. suffered another disappointment. After a week of threats and pressure from Syria, Shi'ite Muslim extremists released Ali Osseiran, the son of Lebanese Defense Minister Adel Osseiran, a Shi'ite political ally of the Syrians.' But the terrorists did not free Charles Glass, an American television journalist who was abducted a week earlier along with Osseiran. Brigadier General Ghazi Kenaan, intelligence chief for the 7,500 Syrian troops that occupy most of the Muslim half of Beirut, had said he would free both Glass and Osseiran "at all costs." Late in the week he began restricting...
...less than a mile from that same airport, Glass, 36, was ambushed by four carloads of bearded gunmen. After being struck with rifle butts, he was stuffed into the trunk of one of the assailants' autos. Dragged off with him was Ali Osseiran, 40, son of Lebanese Defense Minister Adel Osseiran, and their bodyguard- | driver. Glass became the ninth U.S. citizen and 24th foreigner to be held hostage in Lebanon...
...Adel, Iowa...
...hotels near the Pyramids when they went on an impromptu riot in February. About 80% of the Americans who planned to visit the country have now canceled their reservations, thus wiping out most of the $100 million in U.S. tourism revenues that Egypt stood to gain this year. Says Adel Zaki, manager of ETA Tours, a large Egyptian travel agency: "This year is going to be a catastrophe...