Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foxholes at Fort Bragg, N.C., would be American G.I.s. But these were Spanish-speaking members of the Salvadoran army taking part in a novel experiment. The soldiers are among 1,466 members of the 15,000-man Salvadoran force who are starting to receive a crash course in basic U.S. Army fighting skills at two of the country's most important military installations, Fort Bragg and Georgia's Fort Benning. The $15 million program is by far the largest basic training exercise for foreign troops ever undertaken at one time on American soil. Its aim: to boost...
...crash nature of the programs inevitably raises questions about their effectiveness, especially since the basic educational level of many of the Salvadorans is below that of their American counterparts. (Average education of the Salvadorans is the equivalent of ninth grade; more than 80% of U.S. recruits last year had a high school diploma.) But, says the U.S. military spokesman, "they are very eager learners." The Americans involved have their own appreciation of the program. Says an Army officer: "This sure beats cutting orders to send me to El Salvador...
...host of pregnancies these days are no less visible than Smith's. When Natalie Jacobson, 38, Boston's most popular news anchorwoman on top-rated WCVB-TV, had her first child last May, some impassioned viewers tried to crash the obstetrics ward to catch a glimpse of her husband and coanchor, Chet Curtis, 42, and her baby, Lindsay Dawn. Thousands of letters and cards poured into the station office. Not only was her pregnancy the occasional subject of the on-camera chitchat that passes between members of television news teams, but a local newspaper gave Page One treatment to Jacobson...
...Freddie, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in June 1978, tried in vain to get help. Last Sir Freddie Thursday he phoned Iain Sproat, Britain's Under-Secretary for Trade, to warn that without government aid, his airline would crash. Later that day Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher discussed Laker's plight with several Cabinet members, but chose not to bail out the carrier. Early next morning, at a tense meeting with his board of directors at Gatwick, Laker called it quits...
...city's straits that Richard Ravitch, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, has been holding truce talks with the graffitists, who are asking him to concede them ten subway cars for their "artwork" in exchange for leaving the others clean. One artist by the name of CRASH, speaking in his native graffiti, thinks that the plan would "pass with flying colors...