Word: attendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rooftops at people who had gathered outside the U.S. embassy. Many more were cut down at Sule Pagoda as thousands of people fled the onslaught, screaming when the soldiers lowered their rifles and fired bursts directly at bystanders and protesters. Ambulance drivers were shot at as they went to attend the wounded. "The soldiers will not respect even the doctors," said a medic at Rangoon General Hospital. His crew was kept away from Sule Pagoda for several hours as victims writhed in agony from their wounds...
...short, messy, indispensable life as one of the founding innovators of modern jazz, knows better. It surrenders to the right things, his compositions and performances, reconstructed with compelling authenticity by music supervisor Lennie Niehaus. And it repels the wrong things, the damp pity and even damper piety that usually attend movie explorations of "genius." This film hates easy explanations almost as much as it loves the hard complexity of Bird's song...
...that we cannot live without it and that for some it can be the focus of a lifetime. Maggie Moran in Breathing Lessons is one of those people for whom love is everything. Maggie and Ira have been married for 25 years when they travel across Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of Maggie's best friend's husband. The novel alternates between Ira's and Maggie's points of view and is told mostly in flashbacks...
...three Eastern Airlines unions, which are organizing today's rally, invited Jackson to speak and rented a plane to fly him to Boston. The former presidential candidate cancelled a speech at Memphis State University to attend the rally, according to his special assistant Mae Louie, who arrived at Logan late last night to prepare for Jackson's appearance...
Breen confirmed yesterday that Harvardadministrators, whom he did not name, told himthat Lorenzo would not attend the reunion. In thatdisussion, Breen said, the University officialsexplained that they had convinced Lorenzo not tocome to Boston. "Harvard asked him not to appear,"the union representative said...