Word: arms
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Whatever the level of the fighting in the Nicaraguan countryside, there could be little doubt that the Reagan Administration was in some way involved. One of the worst-kept secrets in Central America is that the U.S. has been helping to arm and aid some of the Sandinistas' most active opponents. But that fact alone could not explain what was happening in Nicaragua. Distaste for the increasingly repressive Nicaraguan regime has been growing. Many of the government's thoroughly disaffected opponents would probably be taking up arms even without U.S. assistance or encouragement. State Department Spokesman John Hughes...
...economic stagnation they have suffered since OPEC first flexed its muscle a decade ago. OPEC'S action, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, is "good news for the U.S. and for the world economy. It will mean less inflation and a strong shot in the arm to the budding economic recovery." Data Resources, a Lexington, Mass., consulting firm, estimates that cheaper oil will boost America's real G.N.P. growth rate this year from a previously projected 1.7% to 2.2% and will slow expected inflation from...
...then Reagan's audience could begin to see a halo glow faintly over his head and hear the rustle of feathers above. He warned against "modern-day secularism" and marched holier than thou into the forbidding swamps of abortion and teen-age sex. Reagan's righteous arm held high the Declaration of Independence ("mentions the Supreme Being no less than four times") and our coinage ("In God we trust...
...Edison's first talking machine. This month two major manufacturers, Sony and Magnavox, are introducing a limited number of digital record players in audio and department stores across the U.S. The machines, which retail for $800 to $1,000, use a laser beam instead of a conventional tone arm and stylus to play compact discs, or CDs, that are only 4.7 in. in diameter and will sell for about $17. Says Dan Davis, vice president of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers: "There is a consensus that this is perhaps the most exciting of the breakthroughs in the field...
...their car in the white neighborhood of Gravesend to get a midnight snack on the way home from work. A gang of white men attacked them; Dennis Dixon fled, and Donald Cooper escaped with the help of a piece of pipe. Their friend and co-worker, William Turks, whose arm was in a cast, was not so lucky. The whites dragged him from the car, and killed him with what was officially described as "overlapping blows to the head by a blunt object like a stick or rod, or even a foot...