Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The State Department persuaded a wealthy Asian potentate to contribute millions of dollars to U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels earlier this year, and a published report says the money was sent to a bank account administered by a central figure in the Iranian arms scandal...
...government sources, speaking on condition they not be identified, confirmed a report in The Los Angeles Times on Saturday that the ruler of oil-rich Brunei, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, agreed to give millions of dollars to the Contras in Central America...
...simply making a blunder. Reagan never left the country during the War, and he knows it; it's hard to confuse Hollywood with Auschwitz. By the same token, when Reagan claimed he had received a message "from Pope John Paul urging us to continue our efforts in Central America," he was not confusing the Pontiff with his wife Nancy she was lying...
...film opens we see him planting a tree on the beach with his son, Little Man (Tommy Kjellqvist), attended by the local postman, Otto (Allan Edwall). The opening shot is awesome--10 minutes long, sustained and uncut, the camera moving with snail-like fury closer and closer toward the central characters. By the time we see their faces, we're desperate to, hungry to; Tarkovsky knows how to engage his audience: it's two-parts hypnotism, two-parts bread and water...
During the three years that Doolittle, his wife and his five sons lived in Laos, the country was embroiled in a civil war similar to the current conflict in Nicaragua. In fact, the Expos instructor says that many of the same people he knew in Laos are now in Central America. There is a whole subculture, he says, of "people who kind of like wars," journalists and CIA agents alike...