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After a brief formal ceremony officially transferring custody of the Americans from Algerian intermediaries into U.S. hands, the returnees found themselves back in the grasp of a benevolent bureaucracy. They were asked to line up by alphabet: those with last names starting from A to K were directed to board one U.S. C-9A Nightingale hospital plane; the rest were assigned to a sister aircraft. Now the rain stopped, stars became visible and some of the Marines broke into a sprint for the waiting planes. The winner of the race thrust his arms in the air and shouted: "God bless...
...leadership of El Salvador's revolutionary left is a diverse, sometimes unlikely group, as varied in its personalities and ideologies as the alphabet soup of its political parties, grass-roots organizations and guerrilla armies. It is only within the past year that the leftists have tried to overcome their old antagonisms and unite under the umbrella of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) for a "final offensive" toward their common objective: the overthrow of the civilian-military junta and the installation of a revolutionary regime...
...public does not understand the alphabet soup of things that are strangling us. The Government, for example, drilled 60 holes while exploring in the federal petroleum reserve in Alaska. Nobody stopped it or interfered. But now that there is discussion about private industry's undertaking the job, there are all kinds of noises about the need for environmental impact statements. We do need Government control, but not this laborious paperwork and red tape that cause such delay...
...Lakota and then back to English to catch Sioux rhythms and emotional tone. Says Sioux Author Vine Deloria Jr. (Custer Died for Your Sins): "How in hell do you type up a manuscript in an ancient language that has never been written down and apparently has no symbols or alphabet?" Now Hill says she has been misunderstood: she did not write a complete Lakota version, but translated important concepts and phrases into Lakota, researched the root meaning of each Lakota term, then redid the English version...
...What letter of the alphabet am I thinking of?" he asks a skeptical construction worker...