Word: caed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first aid post in the Santiago railroad station in the custody of DINA agents. According to the smuggled prisoners' report, however, a month later a witness saw DINA agents run over Guajardo's legs with a pickup truck in the courtyard of the José Domingo Cañas detention center...
...whole process of evacuation was beset by such disturbing uncertainty. TAT TAT CA DEN, MAY LANH VA QUAT KHI RA VE, instructed the sign on the bowling-alley wall at evacuation headquarters: "Turn off the lights, air conditioners and fans when leaving." It was an eerie notion that here, in an abandoned American bowling alley that had become a makeshift waiting room for thousands of desperate South Vietnamese, the light at the end of the tunnel was about to be extinguished at last...
...faculty essentially independent of time and place; he also felt that the making of beautiful and perfect objects utterly transcended their function in a strictly utilitarian sense as evidence of a way of life." The more than four hundred jades in the collection date from the Neolithic period (to ca. 1550 B.C.) to the Late Eastern Chou dynasty (480-222 B.C.) and they are presented with a minimum of historical or stylistic explanation. In case after case these beautiful and mysterious objects speak eloquently of a culture's skill and sensitivity...
With that record part of U.S. history and the conspiracy trial in the ca pable hands of an ace prosecutor, James Neal (see THE LAW), Jaworski felt free to return, as he has long yearned, to his 800-acre horse ranch outside Houston and a $200,000-a-year law practice. As far as is known, there was no protest la tent in the tuning of his departure. He was not outraged by President Ford's premature pardoning of Nixon, al though he would have argued against it if he had been asked; Ford had not consulted...
...Perjury. Nixon then turned the tapes over to Federal Judge John Siri ca. The staff of the new special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, has since heard the remaining tapes, including those of March 13 and March 21 and apparently believes that they support Dean's testimony. Last week attorneys for Dwight Chapin, Nixon's former aide who faces a trial for perjury in the scandal, noted that Dean will be called as a Government witness against him. The attorneys demanded to know whether the Government has any evidence that "Mr. Dean has lied even in matters extraneous to this...