Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planes were intercepted by two Saudi F-15 fighters firing air-to-air missiles. One, and possibly both, of the Iranian planes was shot down. A short time later, Iran sent eleven more F-4s into the skies over the Persian Gulf. Again, the Saudis intercepted them. After a brief standoff, the Iranian planes withdrew...
...major sore point between Honduras and the U.S. is the training of Salvadoran soldiers on Honduran soil. In 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought a brief war; though animosities have abated, a border dispute remains. Recently, Washington insisted that 1,200 Salvadorans be allowed to participate in the joint U.S.-Honduran miltary exercises, dubbed Granadero I, that aided last week. In addition, some 4,000 Salvadorans have been trained at a Honduran military base near Puerto Castilla. Honduran military officials are renegotiating with the U.S. the terms of operating the base. Though the Salvadorans will probably remain, the Honduran government...
...Arens to the U.S. last week produced genuine accommodation between Washington and its major allies. The possibility of some arrangement with an important adversary arose too, as Secretary of State George Shultz took off with no advance fanfare on a journey to Nicaragua, then proceeded on to Galway to brief the President (see WORLD...
Such members follow a devotional life of daily Communion, weekly confession, daily prayers and readings, and regular extended talks with an assigned spiritual director. Numeraries also practice bodily mortification such as fasting or early rising. Periodically, there are also brief sessions of self-flagellation with long braided strings and periods of wearing a type of cilice, a barbed metal band, on the upper thigh. These, explains Father William Stetson, Opus director for four Midwestern states, "are small reminders of what our Lord endured...
...most of them have forsaken the counterculture, many members of the class contend that what motivated their activism in the 60s continues to shape the ways that they have decided to provide for families and stability. For some, like Ross C. Owens '69, the events of '69 were a brief prelude to a longer period of activism. Owens entered and dropped out of divinity school after Harvard, and did two years of service as a minister to fulfill his duty as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam war. After being involved in community organizing and issues of social justice during...