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...Mirza Aslam Beg, the Pakistani army's chief of staff, said the military moves were taken to assure an orderly transition to other civilian authorities, and were not an attempt by the military to seize power...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Bhutto Deposed by Pakistan's President | 8/7/1990 | See Source »

...sprinted to the Stop n' Shop to beg for an extra 20 minutes. As I exited the stadium, I saw the Bay State quarterback separate his shoulder on the first play of the game...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Welcome to the Minor Leagues | 7/17/1990 | See Source »

...University that all purposesconverge--to study there, to photograph it, tosell to it, to beg from it. Harvard, seen from theSquare, is like the court of a great king in theMiddle Ages, where beggars and wizards, sages andcharlatans, all find their place

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: A People-Watcher's Field Guide | 7/3/1990 | See Source »

...Angeles County Fire Department, a unit that serves a working-class white and Hispanic area within comfortable reach of five hospital emergency rooms. But as time passes each day, one E.R. after another claims saturation and closes down. Paramedics with life-and-death cases must sometimes beg or bluff their way in. Equally frustrating, trauma-care capability gets entangled with the community's demand for street medicine. High-speed runs for "unknown rescue" all too often involve nothing more than cut fingers, headaches and family hysteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Hard Day's Night in L. A. | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...Singh told Parliament that the people of India must be made "psychologically" ready for war with Pakistan, and that Islamabad would have to pay a "very high price" if it did not desist from fanning the secessionist uprising in India's Kashmir region. The next day General Mirza Aslam Beg, Pakistan's chief of army staff, fired back in a press release. "Threatening statements from India," it read, "were really serious and called for a high state of preparedness and vigilance to frustrate the demands of the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Kashmir Danger Flags | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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