Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Allen Counter, the Foundation's director, did not return repeated phone calls last week...
...Nicaragua, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra's renewed calls for bilateral talks with Honduras were ostensibly aimed at relieving border tensions. Washington believes such conversations would run counter to the Contadora process, the regional effort to bring peace to Central America. The minister's brother, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, concluded his 25-day, 14-country tour of Eastern and Western Europe with the announcement that Moscow had agreed to supply up to 90% of Nicaragua's oil needs. Since estimates are that the Soviet Union already provides some 75% to 90% of Nicaragua's consumption...
...about the wisdom of the exchange were also raised in other areas. Said Clinton Bailey, an Arab-affairs expert at Tel Aviv University: "The release of all these convicted murderers is going to confuse the issues of justice and respect for the law and make it very difficult to counter Jewish extremist demands." Others argued that the release would make it harder for Israel to maintain its traditional position that there can be no negotiations with terrorists and no compromise with terrorism. But to Peres and his Labor Party colleagues, the prisoner swap was an essential step in ending...
...Mexico. Above the horseshoe-shaped counter on panels where a menu is usually displayed, an overhead slide show is in progress. The pictures change slowly, allowing the viewer to take in all the details. A low shot of a Peterbilt, its chrome fittings sparkling in the sunshine, is followed by one of a bosomy young woman, the same who must pose for those calendars found in auto-parts stores. She almost has on clothes, and she is offering to check a trucker's oil. The next slide is a side view of a whole tractor-trailer rig, its 18 wheels...
...waitress in the professional drivers' section is a big motherly-looking woman with red hair piled in careful curls on top of her head. She correctly sizes up the proper meal for the new customer at the counter. "Don't know what you want, honey? Try the chicken-noodle soup with a hot roll. It will stick to you like you've got something, and you don't have to worry about grease...