Word: aug
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...hurricane could not have prevented the riot in New Lodge that took place that summer night. Aug. 8 was the 18th anniversary of internment -- the day the British carried out a mass roundup of suspects -- and it was marked with blazing bonfires in every Catholic neighborhood. For weeks, the kids had been preparing for it, collecting wood, tires, old furniture, anything not nailed down. That afternoon the children had also been gathering milk and beer bottles to make petrol bombs for "after." The police came by at 5 p.m. and smashed the bottles with their rifle butts, but the kids...
Greenwald's first task in his new post at UAL will be to persuade skeptical lenders to support the buyout, which has an Aug. 9 deadline. If the buyout succeeds, Greenwald will become UAL chairman, replacing current boss Stephen Wolf. Wall Street, for its part, remains chary of the deal. UAL's stock closed at $159 last week, far below the proposed $201-a-share takeover price...
...economist by training, the President-elect, who will take office on Aug. 7, also insists that the U.S. do more to help win the drug war. He complains that unfair tariffs on legitimate exports like coffee and flowers hinder efforts to squelch the drug trade. "The U.S. has to understand we don't want their troops," he says. "We want to be treated fairly as a trading partner...
...cooperation, the Soviets asked that Washington respond favorably when the Sandinistas took positive steps. "The more evidence Managua sees that the U.S. is willing to coexist with them after the elections, assuming they win," said Pavlov, "the easier it will be to create a free and fair election." On Aug. 4, the Sandinistas signed an accord with the democratic opposition calling for the disbanding of the contras and general elections in February 1990. On Aug. 7, in the tortured syntax that defines diplomatese, Baker said publicly the U.S. was "very pleased with the steps that Nicaragua has taken to establish...
...breakdown in racial civility that had no quick explanation or readily available cure. Some of the youths accused of killing Hawkins were jobless school dropouts with histories of drug abuse -- mirror images in whiteface of underclass young black males. The whites had armed themselves on the night of Aug. 23 because the former girlfriend of their alleged leader, Keith Mondello, had invited black and Hispanic guests to her birthday party. They mistook Yusuf and his comrades for those guests...