Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Diego Crew Classic the previous weekend, against the finest competition on the West Coast, Radcliffe mercilessly destroyed every opposing crew...
...gossip and scandal, there are many better places to look. For example, most of the above tidbits about Ascot come from a much newsier source, the classic 1983 Book of Royal Lists Barry, who apparently was fired by Princess Diana shortly after the marriage, pulls too many punches in this, the second volume of his memories of 15 years of laying out clothes for the Prince of Wales...
...F.M.L.N. also seems to have adopted new tactics, or, rather, old ones. After a period in which the insurgents fought increasing numbers of pitched battles with the army, they now appear to have reverted to more classic guerrilla methods. When faced with superior firepower, they retreat; when the army moves on, they regroup in their old haunts. Last week, however, the army claimed a major victory over the elusive rebels. A military spokesman contended that one of the country's most important guerrilla commanders, Joachin Villalobos, of the group known as the People's Revolutionary Army, had been shot...
Comedian John Belushi. Gangster John Dillinger. Nobel Biologist Francis Crick. All are classic Type T personalities, and so, fittingly enough, is television...
...Africa, Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) is waging a classic war of attrition in the bush. Its target, the pro-Soviet government in Luanda, relies heavily on some 30,000 Cuban troops, much as the South Vietnamese government relied on American forces until 1975. UNITA's principal backer is South Africa, but Savimbi has visited Washington as frequently as some anticolonialist revolutionaries used to visit Moscow...