Word: crowning
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...people suffered silently, and through all the recent years when they tried to stand up for a little justice and were shot for their pains, the only people who knew about the nation were the executives of companies like Texas Instruments, Chevron, Phelps Dodge, Kimberly-Clark, Texaco and Crown Zellerbach. Any time in the last 40 years, some carefully applied American pressure might have spawned major reform. Probably anytime, that is, until March of last year, when a rightist gunman shot and killed Archbishop Oscar Romero as he celebrated Mass. Perhaps anytime until November 28 of last year, when...
...soars high above a treetop with an open umbrella? Answer: Barbara ("Mary Poppins") Bush. That's the way the Second Lady billed herself after braving high altitude and Washington rain to top the national Christmas tree with a star on the Ellipse south of the White House. To crown the 30-ft. Colorado Spruce, Bush was given a lift in a cherry picker. The task comes with her job, she says: "Vice Presidents' wives go to funerals and top Christmas trees." They do not, however, light the evergreens. On Dec. 17, Ronald Reagan will perform that service...
...center of the squabbling at Fez, where Morocco's King Hassan II played host, was the eight-point peace proposal outlined last August by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd. The plan offers tacit recognition of Israel's right to exist in exchange for, among other things, a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Bitterly opposed by the Israelis, the plan was conceived by the cautious Saudis to achieve an Arab consensus...
...gait of trained infantrymen. Others stumbled to keep in step. But whether wearing face masks, field jackets or street clothes, all displayed orange armbands inscribed with the words FOR GOD AND ULSTER. Thundered Paisley from a makeshift reviewing stand: "My men are ready to be recruited under the crown to destroy the vermin of the I.R.A. But if the crown refuses to recruit them, then we will destroy the I.R.A. ourselves...
Bringing their cross-country skills to the longer track events will be senior Kristin Linsley and Yardlings Jenny Stricker, Kate Wiley, Mary-Jeanne Barrett and Amy Simon, among others. Wiley and Stricker will be well worth watching--during the fall season Wiley took the Easterns crown and earned a spot on the All-American Division I cross country team, and Stricker took the Ivy League laurels at Franklin Park with an outstanding performance...