Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cuba's 50,000 soldiers home and institute long-promised independence for Namibia. But an agreement on the terms, expected next week in the Congolese capital of Brazzaville, will bring no peace to Angola, whose people have known nothing but war for 27 years. The departing foreigners will leave behind a land glutted with weapons and a Marxist government still at war with the 60,000 homegrown rebels known as UNITA...
...regional peace accord for southern Africa, which was mediated by the U.S., is expected to require the Cubans to depart within 24 months, possibly starting with a partial pullback behind the 13th parallel. During that time, South Africa will gradually remove its troops from Namibia and permit implementation of the ten-year-old U.N. Resolution 435 calling for the territory's independence. The accord is expected to be signed by the U.S., South Africa, Angola and Cuba at a ceremony in Brazzaville. Though a hopeful start, the accord leaves Angola's underlying dispute unresolved: the tribal conflict that pits some...
Ever since it went on line in 1953, the Savannah River facility has operated behind a barrier of secrecy so impenetrable that officials in Washington were often in the dark. In recent months Government investigators have begun to turn up internal memos that are shattering the silence. The result: a congressional hearing that revealed a stunning list of nuclear incidents caused by a combination of primitive instrumentation, inadequately trained personnel and a management meltdown by both DOE and E.I. du Pont de Nemours, which runs the plant for the Federal Government. The impact on the environment is not yet fully...
Think of the classic convertible cars: long, sleek, sporty, maybe even a bit impractical. All in all, not the kind of vehicle that would lend itself to a gun rack behind the driver's seat or a load of cargo bouncing around in the back. Think again: Chrysler, the No. 3 U.S. automaker, plans to introduce in early 1989 a Dodge Dakota pickup truck with a removable, manually operated vinyl...
...game begins with a kickoff. The player with the ball may run with the ball or kick it or pass it to any other player laterally behind...