Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although only one of this year's eight counselors is male, there has traditionally been a closer ratio last year, four of the 12 were male...
...stop in the port of Hamburg, U.S. officials informed their colleagues in West Germany that the ship was carrying Soviet-bound contraband. Once the ship had docked, however, a Hamburg judge turned down the formal request for a search warrant on grounds of insufficient evidence. As the deadline ticked closer, a three-member panel of the appeals court reviewed and finally reversed the earlier decision. Just seven minutes before the Elgaren was scheduled to lift anchor, anxious officials sped out to it in a launch and clambered aboard. They promptly ordered three 20-ft.-long containers to be hoisted...
Interestingly enough, however, the United States has not moved farther from Soviet tactics but closer. Where the Soviets keep foreigners out of specific areas of Russia, the United States in response now keeps the Soviets out of certain areas of America for no more serious reasons than a strange form of punishment. The Soviets, for example, are not allowed to enter Plymouth. Massachusetts Perhaps, one imagines, the administration is worried that the Soviets will carry away the famous rock. But luckily, we have learned one thing about the Soviets that they have always beaten us on. Before they knew that...
...LAFEBER'S analysis of post-Somoza Nicaragua, for example, is questionable. Like many liberal and left wing critics of current U.S. policy, LaFeber asserts that American over-reaction to Sandinista actually pushed Nicaragua into the arms of Cuba and the Soviets. A closer reality in the explanation given by former junta members that argues that Nicaraguan shift to the left was the result of the Marxist inspired Sandinistas emerging from an anti-Somoza coalition as the predominant political power. One fact LaFeber doesn't cite is that only eight months after rebels poured into Managua...
...right, I saw a Yale undergrad slip, laughing, from the top of the Yale Bowl. He tumbled, head-over-heels, down the step grass incline, plummeting ever closer to the brick barrier that was the mantle of one portal...