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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall of 1978, Fran Tate had the notion to open a Mexican restaurant in Barrow, Alaska. She had canvassed the town-there are, if you count the transients, roughly 3,000 people there, 80% of them Eskimos-and Mexican food is what they said they favored, overwhelmingly. The more she thought about it, the more she liked the idea, and one day, in a fit of enterprise, she seized a board, a piece of two-by-four, it being the nearest thing at hand, and drew her plans on it-the kitchen, the dining room seating arrangement, all that. Fran...
...crowd; others burned old tires to cook makeshift meals before pushing off into the rattlesnake-infested canyons leading toward San Ysidro, Calif., and points north. Two dozen agents of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), deployed in Dodge Ram trucks on surrounding hillsides, squinted through binoculars to count the aliens and prepare to intercept them...
...skeletons in the closet. Really, Like the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute. Or the Institute on College Admissions (some people actually think that's what the whole summer school is about). There's also some interesting stuff that's not there--tenured professors from Harvard, for instance. I count eight on the summer school faculty listed towards the back of this book, but for the life of me I can't figure out what they all teach. Adam Ulam is cited in the back, but, as far as can be told, he is nowhere to be found--even in the listings...
...have refused to fire back at Iranian planes that for the past month have flown into Saudi airspace in response to Iraq's efforts to choke off Iranian oil exports by firing at tankers using Iran's oil ports. As a result, Iran has been able to count on a big advantage: the determination of Saudi Arabia and the smaller gulf states to stay out of the conflict. Now, it appears, the Saudi policy of nonconfrontation with Iran no longer prevails...
Almost a month has passed since the Philippines held a nationwide election for its 200-seat National Assembly, and still there is no final count. The election commission, whose members are appointed by the government of President Ferdinand Marcos, has conceded that the opposition more than quadrupled its representation, from 14 to at least 62 seats, but has yet to give a final tally for eleven seats...