Word: chats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bananas and water. More important, the local campesinos act as couriers and give our patrol intelligence about Sandinista troop movements. On the third and fourth nights of our trek, we are invited to sleep at peasant homes. During the days, we frequently take long rests at farmhouses. The contras chat easily with our hosts, some of whom are their friends and relatives...
...action begins at 6 p.m., when CompuServe's rates drop from $12 an hour to $6, and is limited to the so-called CB channels, the computer version of Citizens Band radio. Each week thousands tune in to CB to chat with other users, and many of them end up on Channel 1, the channel designated for adults. Sometimes 40 people will be on-line at once, their pseudonymous messages scrolling by on the screen faster than the eye can read. "I'm nibbling your earlobe," begins a typical come-on. Reply: "Not so hard!" Men, sporting such...
Inside the Great Hall of the People, to which he would return half a dozen times, Reagan met with Li Xiannian, his nominal counterpart. It was a largely ceremonial meeting with a largely ceremonial Chinese President, but the chat provided a bright diplomatic omen: the men spoke for 35 minutes, several times as long as had been allotted...
...during the chat, Li did not shy away from mentioning the "obstacles" to international harmony-Peking's basic euphemism for U.S. support of Taiwan. All weekend the Chinese rulers would allude to that lingering obstacle. They seemed determined that no one, American or Chinese, get carried away with the effervescent bonhomie of the moment...
Even if he does nothing but chat over salad. Richardson will be the force to contend with in this crucial Senate election...