Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Military dependents were among the 12 passengers on board, said Dyess spokesperson Sgt. Al Dostal, but he did not know how many. The plane had a crew of seven, he said...
...when Al Vellucci's speeches no longer echo in Sullivan Chamber, the city will still reflect the mayor's more serious achievements: Harvard's voluntary payments to compensate the city for its tax-exempt property; city government attention to the hazardous side of Cambridge's many chemical and biotechnology companies; and above all, Vellucci's contributions to the rent control ordinance and his steadfast support for that...
...doubt that any of the mayor's would-be successors can replace Vellucci's combined ability to act on his liberal opinions while winning votes from the more traditional neighborhoods. When the next Council takes office a year from now, we may be missing Al Vellucci more than we expect...
...generation of yuppies vie to succeed Al Vellucci, their voices sound flatter and harsher than the full declamations Cambridge has come to expect of its last New Deal populist. Like Harvard Square, the City Council is losing its human touch...
...Swee Ang, 40, a physician from Singapore who was working at the Sabra refugee camp for Palestinians in Beirut at the time of the 1982 massacre by Phalangist militiamen. After surviving the ordeal, she returned to Britain to marshal support for the Palestinians before resuming work at Bourj al-Barajneh, another refugee camp in Beirut. "I'd seen how the Palestinians had suffered," she says, "and to abandon them after that and not do something would have been a crime...