Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, was not the gunman; Livaditis was found among his hostages, stunned and only slightly injured. He was later charged with murder, robbery, kidnaping and other crimes. The victim turned out to be the jewelry store's manager, Hugh Skinner, 64. "The shooting was not accidental," Sheriff Sherman Block explained forthrightly. "The marksman shot this individual, convinced that he was the suspect. It was a tragic...
...foreign or the tough are not your cup of tea, the Square does have the expensive and well-groomed. The block right across the street from the Kennedy School of Government will convince you that the yuppie gene is dominant. The Shays Wine Bar--the newest shi-shi place to toss down at Lafite Rothschild or two--and the Boathouse Bar--a tradition-laden drinking place--attract the upwardly mobile like an American Express gold card. If you want to drink here make sure you're well dressed or they will laugh at your I.D. even...
...striking thing about Botha's position and the future of the country is not that communists are threatening the stability of a U.S. ally which has claimed to maintain Western values, but rather that his government is evolving rapidly into an Eastern Block nation itself. The limits to which South Africa is willing to go to avoid recognizing the humanity of its majority population is equal only to the repression prevelent in the world's notoriously closed societies. If Pik Botha truly fears the totalitarianism that characterizes many communist governments, he should properly fear the direction of his own regime...
Just as the Eastern European Block regimes attract little steady attention from the American population, South Africa is relying on a closed-door policy just short of an iron curtain. If, as Pik Botha stated, the primary purpose of white South Africans is to survive, then perhaps a sacrifice of some of their public ties to Western nations would not be too high a price...
...Senate voted 73 to 22 last month to block the sale, which included Stinger antiaircraft missiles, Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and Harpoon antiship missiles. The House of Representatives also opposed the sale, by a vote of 356 to 62. Reagan vetoed the congressional resolution but cut from the package another $89 million worth of Stingers after opponents charged that the shoulder-fired weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists and be used for shooting down airliners. But at that point the President began to lobby hard to turn the vote around. During a White House breakfast...