Word: baye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Klan. But no, this invitation is to join the Clan Maxwell Society. "We meet four times a year, wear kilts, promote Scottish culture." Another clan member, Kenn, a fourth-generation American with a Pavarotti girth and an approximate voice, whose favorite songs are Old Scot Mother and Tobermory Bay, opens tonight with the song no one else dares sing if he is present: New York, New York...
...upcoming U.S.-Soviet session temporarily took the starch out of one of Walter Mondale's key campaign issues: Reagan's failure to meet with Soviet leaders. Cornered by reporters at Chicago's Midway Airport on his way to Green Bay, Wis., Mondale stopped short of accusing Reagan of using the Gromyko visit for partisan gain. "I'm glad it's occurring," he said. "But I think it's pretty pathetic that an Administration, in the middle of its campaign for reelection, has its first meeting not with the Soviet counterpart of the President...
...pall on the entire industry, not just GM," said Ronald Kelly, a Ford dealer in Stamford, Conn. After the tough years of the late 1970s and early 1980s, dealers once again face a sales slump. Those with low inventory are especially worried. Said Clara Benjamin, co-owner of Bay Chevrolet in Queens, N.Y.: "A strike is going to affect us very badly. We will be laying off help if this turns out to be a long...
...police department in Huntsville and an active weekend officer in the Alabama National Guard's elite Special Forces unit at nearby Decatur. The CIA had used the Alabama Air National Guard surreptitiously in the early 1960s to train Cuban exiles as pilots for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. Powell, also 36, had piloted helicopters in Viet Nam, surviving three crashes caused by enemy fire. Parker belonged to a little-known anti-Communist organization in Alabama called the Civilian Military Assistants group (CMA). Powell was a member of a Memphis offshoot known as Civilian Refugee Military Assistants...
...device that had shoved two satellites into uselessly low orbits last February. A second satellite was sprung successfully on Friday, this one employing the new so-called Frisbee launcher. The mechanism, designed especially for the shuttle, acts as an Olympian wrist, snapping off the satellite from the cargo bay in a slow spin that quickens to 30 r.p.m. once in space. The following day, a PAM-driven AT&T satellite was set free. Said Mission Control as the last cylinder twirled into the void: "That's three for three...