Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ingratiate themselves with the devil, the killers boiled the brains and hearts of their victims, mixing the concoction with leg and arm bones and animal heads. So vicious were the devil worshipers that it took two pathologists laboring at a Matamoros mortuary almost four days to complete the autopsies. Several victims remained unidentified, but at least one other young male may have been an American kidnaped from neighboring Brownsville, Texas. Besides Constanzo, authorities sought three other suspects, including the Godfather's companion, Sara Maria Aldrete, 24, a Mexican honor student at Texas Southmost College in Brownsville. Searching Aldrete's home...
...academics didn't suffer. I just went around with one arm for awhile instead of two," McCormack says...
...Executive and Legislative branches were always under the same control. Not only would that avoid paralysis through partisan disagreement; it would also prevent the evasion of responsibility that is the real cause of paralysis in our Government. Negotiations on the budget, for example, are more like thumb wrestling than arm wrestling: the opponents don't really disagree about the destination; they just know that whoever goes first loses...
...there was ever any doubt that President Bush and former President Reagan were intricately involved in running the covert operation to arm the Nicaraguan rebels during a Congressional ban on such aid from 1985-86, government documents released last week should help dispel it. The documents strongly suggest that Bush, while vice president, played a more direct role in covertly arranging aid for the Nicaraguan Contras than he has previously acknowledged...
Oscar Orellana Garcia, a representative of the human rights arm of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN)--which has fought a civil war in El Salvador throughout this decade--said U.S. support should be restricted to humanitarian aid and conditional upon the resolution of the country's political turmoil...