Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...birth defects. In 1970 the U.S. military stopped using Agent Orange over Viet Nam. By that time some 11 million gallons of the herbicide had been sprayed over the country. It has been estimated that 50,000 to 60,000 servicemen were exposed to the chemical. Said Veteran Al Marcotte: "We bathed in it, drank it and slept...
Little of the sprawling army complex of Bab al Azaziyeh, in the heart of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, is visible over the high stone-and-concrete wall that encircles it. Red-bereted guards are on duty at the gates, remote-control TV cameras scan the street outside, and the occasional gun of a Soviet tank protrudes through slits in the wall. But Libyans know that their leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, uses the barracks as a residence, though for security reasons he often sleeps elsewhere. Thus when gunfire was heard in the vicinity of Bab al Azaziyeh, many Libyans thought...
...Libyan government maintained that the firing had not taken place at Bab al Azaziyeh barracks but at a three-story building about half a mile from the barracks, where the plotters were hiding from police. The government also claimed that two days earlier three members of "opposition Islamic organizations" had entered the country from Tunisia. One was shot and killed; the others, according to this official version, were carrying the names of their coconspirators, presumably Libyan members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including those who were holed up in the Tripoli building...
...Administration sees it, the rise in the prime was the result of the tight monetary policy being pursued by Feder al Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. The Administration has long been unhappy with Federal Reserve policy, saying in private that the Fed should allow the money supply to grow more rapidly and thus help the recovery. Reagan aides had sharply criticized the Fed earlier in the Administration, but in recent months the attacks had stopped...
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