Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After this, a lot of people might wonder whether or not we're for real," Crimson center and Co-Captain Joe Carrabino said of himself and the Four Guards--Pat Smith, Keith Webster, Arne Duncan and Bob Ferry--who, except for a brief departure by Smith, went the distance against the Big Green...
Morning, some weeks later. Miss Quested has found her adventure, her brief and, as it will happen, terrifying glimpse of Indian reality. A young Muslim physician, Dr. Aziz, has mounted an excursion to the Marabar Caves, in the hills beyond Chandrapore, for the two English ladies. To transport them in style he has laid on a huge retinue of servants and an elephant. "An old, old animal, an ancient, ancient animal, plodding on almost back into the past," is how the man who made the film describes the creature. But even this great beast and the train of servants stretching...
...place called Macondo begins cropping up in the stories, as do the names of some who have figured prominently and mysteriously in its history: Colonel Aureliano Buendia, JoséArcadio Buendia. The village-universe of One Hundred Years of Solitude makes brief, embryonic appearances. Big Mama's Funeral (1962) seems a small dress rehearsal for the extravagant saga that was to follow. The death of Macondo's matriarch sends nearly everyone into frenetic activity. Lawmakers debate: "Interminable hours were filled with words, words, words, which resounded throughout the Republic, made prestigious by the spokesmen of the printed word...
...Charles Hegna, 50, and William Stanford, 52, were carried by an honor guard into the cavernous hangar for a memorial service, there were tears of sorrow and frustration in the eyes of many in the crowd of 150 Government officials and family members. Vice President George Bush delivered a brief and angry eulogy for the two officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development killed two weeks ago in the brutal hijacking of a Kuwait Airways flight bound for Karachi. "We shall know their murderers with the long memories of those who believe in patient but certain justice," said Bush...
Alpha Stephens was black, his victim white. Last year Stephens' lawyers filed a brief in the Supreme Court that cited the new study, arguing that Georgia's death penally law was discriminatory in practice. The same study is the basis of three appeals still pending before the federal appeals court in Atlanta. Because of those pending cases, the Supreme Court granted Stephens a stay of execution a year ago. The legal situation seemed unchanged, yet three weeks ago, suddenly and without explanation, the court lifted the stay, clearing the way for Stephens' execution...