Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contras inside Nicaragua admit they have been using the cease-fire zones for resupply operations. Ironically, as even some of the rebels' strongest supporters reluctantly conclude the contra effort is doomed -- an opinion seemingly shared by many of the civilian contra leaders -- the estimated 12,000 rebel soldiers are finally beginning to look like a fighting force. Armed with U.S. Redeye missiles, the contras claim to have shot down more than 20 Sandinista helicopters this year, and are now stepping up attacks in the northern provinces. A sympathetic expatriate community in Miami still believes the contras could...
...Southeast Asia. In Kampuchea, he was helicoptered into a town only to discover that a North Vietnamese siege he thought had been lifted was still going on. Under heavy fire, Cloud was trapped for two and a half days. Says Cloud: "I must admit that there's a certain thrill in being in dangerous situations -- and surviving...
...Iowa drama teacher, John Bergman, 40. Since 1980 the actors have been crisscrossing the country in a rickety red-and-white bus, playing in penitentiaries and juvenile-detention centers, holding theatrical workshops and performing their largely improvised plays about prison life. One aim is to force prisoners to admit to themselves that criminal behavior is stupid and ugly. "Our work is no more than 20th century versions of medieval folk tales," says the British-born Bergman, a voluble, witty man who smokes incessantly and is forever running his hand through his tangled, shoulder- length hair...
...findings are accurate, ideas about atmospheric evolution might have to be revised. The two admit the results "are still very preliminary," but they insist the method is sound...
They freely admit, however, that members arerigorously expected to "fellowship," or spread theword, outside the Church community. Indeed, somesenior members such as Shepherd left ministerialposts in other denominations because they weredissatisfied with the slow conversion rates...