Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That appeal apparently had little effect, and later in the day Reagan got a lesson in U.S. and Soviet cultural differences. When he and Nancy went for an unscheduled walk around the Arbat, a quaint Moscow shopping mall, the friendly but thrusting crowds alarmed the KGB. Guards appeared out of nowhere to form a flying wedge around the Reagans and roughed up everyone from journalists to children. "It's still a police state," the President was heard to mutter. That night Reagan was expected to visit the Moscow apartment of Yuri and Tanya Zieman, refuseniks who have been denied permission...
...quell the rebellion, Israel has resorted to a system of secret justice for alleged Palestinian activists, with little recourse for appeal. The cases carry a numbing similarity. Around midnight on Feb. 1, for example, there was a knock at the door of Ezzidine al Aryan's home in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The pharmacist and head of the city's Red Crescent (Arab Red Cross) was at prayer. Aryan, 51, was taken to Jneid prison, where he languished in a cell for nearly three months. One day a judge handed down an order for six months of "administrative...
...Ansar 3 prisoners who managed to appeal their detention orders have won release. The brief appeals hearings before a three-man military tribunal generally amount to little more than ritual. And so the prisoners will continue to languish in their tents, with little to do but discuss politics. Detention, says Inmate No. 1,231, Kassan Ali, 29, of Gaza, "only strengthens our demand for national rights. Conditions here create more hatred...
...appeal of earmarking has attracted interest even from private developers. In Los Angeles the Occidental Petroleum Corp. has sponsored a ballot initiative to allow it to drill for oil near fashionable Pacific Palisades. The proposal upsets local homeowners, but Occidental has plans to offset their votes: the oil company pledges to pay taxes estimated to exceed $60 million a year for the police, $40 million for city hall and $25 million for the schools. All earmarked, of course...
...produced through next October have already been sold to dealers. The product seems to be attracting young buyers who have previously leaned toward such imports as the Honda Prelude ($13,640) or the Toyota Celica ($11,548). Ford and Mazda are so confident of the Probe's quality and appeal that they plan to export 6,000 of the cars to Japan this year...