Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refugees' return is a bitter blow to UNITA, which continues to harass Neto's forces from guerrilla bases in southern Angola. Savimbi, reasonably enough, fears that the returnees' technical and management skills will bolster the Neto regime. Declared a UNITA representative in Lisbon last week: "The Portuguese know the country, and through them Neto could recuperate; UNITA does not want them to go." Claiming that four people who went back to Angola had already been taken prisoner by UNITA forces, he warned that any mass exodus would put the returnees "in grave danger." That seemed...
...worth the $4.50. Actually, Altman was delightful at his press conference in the afternoon, (SEE SCRUTINY, page one) but appeared flustered by a) the technical problems (the projector belt broke) and b) the obnoxious boneheads in the audience, who asked every conceivable sort of stupid question. ("I'm Joe Blow from B.U., and I'm getting my M.F.A. in theater this year, and I want to know if you'll be needing any apprentices..." Altman: "I won't be needing...
...members of the Class of '79, Harvard hockey has been a series of ups and downs, of bizarre twists and weird, less-than-happy endings. But this latest blow has been the cruelest of all, a sad denouement to a faded dream...
...Guerrilla Leader Joshua Nkomo to join the multiracial interim government collapsed last month, after Smith accused Nkomo's men of slaughtering ten defenseless survivors from a civilian passenger plane shot down by the guerrillas. Discouraged U.S. diplomats conceded that the massacre had also dealt an all but fatal blow to the joint British-American plan for a peaceful Rhodesian settlement. As Nkomo has recently warned, "The only way left...
...hostile glances at everyone in the restaurant. As our eyes met I jerked away in fear and applied renewed attention to my place mat. As she attacked her order, her wig came askew. The nextlook in my direction was so full of violence that I could almost feel a blow. Tossing a bill on the table, I dragged my near comatose roommate...