Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such barbs do not seem to bother Reagan or his CIA director, William Casey. When Casey took over the agency, he promised his staff "good new days ahead." The CIA is expanding its program to supply arms to rebels fighting the Soviet Union puppet regime in Afghanistan (see box). According to intelligence analysts, the U.S. is believed to be helping Libyan dissidents forge an opposition to Dictator Muamar Gaddafi and is suspected of circumventing the ban on covert operations in Angola in order to keep alive the anti-Communist insurgency there...
...political Establishment had polished up its manifestoes, printed new campaign posters and raised partisan invective to libelous levels. Labor Party Leader Michael Foot had had his shaggy locks trimmed. Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had had her teeth capped. The country was, in short, coming down with ballot-box fever. Nearly everyone expected Thatcher to call a general election for next month, al most a year before her five-year term runs out. Thatcher was mum on the subject, so the nation looked for omens, above all in local elections that took place last Thursday in every part...
...special envoy to seek a peaceful solution in Central America. This was the brainchild of Maryland Congressman Clarence Long, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that handles foreign aid. Long and his colleagues, however, were disappointed by Reagan's choice of former Democratic Senator Richard Stone of Florida (see box). They feel Stone is too aligned with the current Administration, for which he has undertaken several diplomatic missions in Central America, and with the deposed right-wing dictatorship of Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in Guatemala, for which he served as a paid lobbyist. The White House held up the appointment...
...some graphology experts, the penmanship in sample diary pages that were made available seems to lack the bold sweep of Hitler's hand and to understate some of his characteristic quirks, like curling the end of each line down and to the right (see box). Said Charles Hamilton, a noted New York City autograph dealer and author of a forthcoming book called Autographs of the Third Reich: "The genuine writing is full of power and force. In the diary samples that I saw, all the letters shake, as though they were drawn, not written...
Thania Pappas plays a solid Miss Adelaide, Nathan's finance of 14 years, and in another cast would garner high praise. She does well on her solo "Adelaide's Lament," and it is only when she shares the stage with Hughes that her charm begins to fads. The Hot Box chorus line suffers a similar fate. Their adequate cabaret numbers get lost in the shadows of the splendid acting...