Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Al Hamburg Champaign...
...body lying in a marsh outside the Iraqi village of Al Beida was badly decomposed, but the swollen face appeared to be that of a youth. The Iranian soldier had apparently died of a head wound suffered in the battle to keep Al Beida, now little more than a ghost town of rubble, from slipping back into Iraqi hands. He would have remained an unknown casualty of an equally unknown skirmish in the Persian Gulf war, if the Iraqi information officer who was leading foreign journalists on a tour of the front had not stopped to pick...
...bomb and by the nature of my personality. The fanciful story about my thrusting a "20-page memorandum" into Reagan's hands as he returned from his swearing-in took root in the press and demonstrated once again that gossip is hardier than truth. Again I called up Meese. "Al," he said, "it's just newspaper talk. Don't pay any attention." Baker gave me the same advice...
There was another envoy who needed to hear the message. This was the Soviet Ambassador, Anatoli Dobrynin. "It's good to see you back in Washington, Al," he said when he made his first call on me at the State Department. "You belong here." Coming quickly to the point, I raised with him the question of the transshipment of Soviet arms through Nicaragua to the insurgents in El Salvador. "All lies," said Dobrynin...
Past speakers at the annual awards dinner have included Curt Gowdy, Al McGuire, Bryant Gumbel, Don Criqui and Peter Carlessimo of the National Invitational Tournament selection committee...