Word: america
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Patterson also gained recognition for his studies of the fossil vertebrates of South America...
Gauger had gone to the embassy to seek information concerning a Voice of America radio report about last week's seizure of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca. When an official she sought turned out to be away from his office, she headed for the embassy commissary, one of few places in the sternly Islamic city where alcohol is served. "I thought I might have lunch and a beer and try to catch him before I left for my next appointment," she says. "You know the rest. It could happen to anyone who likes a beer...
Gauger has spent much of her life in motion. As a youth she traveled through North and South America with her father, a chemical engineer. Her childhood ambition was to become a foreign correspondent, but her economics degree from Swarthmore led to a job with TIME as a New York-based researcher in the Business section. She later moved to the news service, where she kept track of colleagues' travels, and eventually be came a reporter in the New York City bureau...
...wonder how many more Greensboros will occur before this country realizes that the Ku Klux Klan is the most dangerous element in today's society, trying to take race relations back some 400 years. Wake up, America; an ugly disease is spreading across the land-the Ku Klux Klan...
While all this is going on inside the embassy, the prisoners have had to endure yet another terrifying pressure coming from outside-the endless roar of crowds in the street chanting "Death to America!" Said Terri Tedford, 41, an embassy secretary: "It had a very definite effect on me. I don't think I could have lasted another week, not another...