Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a pledge of support extracted from other senior commanders, the general convened a ceremonial session to proclaim himself President. Rios Montt prudently dispatched tanks to the country's principal air force base as "a preventive measure" in case the officers there chose to be rebellious...
...information available to the FBI which indicates that" Donovan or his Schiavone Construction Co. were "mobbed up." At the time, many committee members were skeptical, and Mullen admits his testimony may have been too "positive" and "sweeping." With last week's more serious claims that Mullen chose not to ferret out more damaging allegations against Donovan, a new congressional inquiry may be in the offing. Says Missouri Democrat Thomas Eagleton, a member of the Labor and Human Resources Committee: "The aroma is so pungent that I think there will be hearings...
...Gran Torino in the middle of Mattapan at three in the morning drinking Budweiser beer out of bar bottles with two non-Harvard buddies from 'Milton. That last memory may not seem very educational, productive, or frankly, important. But it is mine. It is part of what I alone chose to do here-it is part of the "82" after my name that represents both the path I took and the challenges I now face.CrimsonTimothy W. PlassSeniors march into yesterday's baccalaureate service...
...replace Andropov as head of the KGB, the Central Committee chose Vitali Fedorchuk, 63, the first professional secret policeman to serve in that post since 1958. Fedorchuk joined the secret police in the Ukraine in 1939, and served in military counterintelligence during the war. Right after the war he was transferred to occupied Austria and Germany. Following his appointment as head of the Ukrainian KGB in 1970, his branch of the secret police gained a reputation for particularly brutal repression of dissidents and religious groups. Fedorchuk is now expected to be elevated to the Central Committee and possibly even...
Britain has missed a unique opportunity [May 10]. Even though they are clearly in the right, the British could have rejected force as a solution to the international crisis. Instead they chose costly chauvinism...