Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There was total confusion," a survivor said later. "It was dark and the wounded were screaming, and we didn't know what was happening." At about 2 a.m., the first mortar fire crashed into the Salvadoran army's garrison at El Paraiso, just 36 miles from the capital of San Salvador. In a daring and well- planned attack last week, leftist guerrillas of the Popular Liberation Forces killed at least 69 government soldiers, as well as a U.S. military adviser, Staff Sergeant Gregory Fronius, 27, of Greensburg, Pa. He was the first American to die in combat during El Salvador...
Gray also mocks the US administration, both lightly and with dark severity. He tells us that the CIA put Lon Nol in power in Cambodia although "no one knew anything about Lon Nol except that Lon Nol spelled background is still Lon Nol." And he compares Pol Pot to Hitler, saying the reason the US continued to support Pol Pot is because no Americans speak Khmer and therefore don't care about the genocide which occured for five years in Cambodia...
With thick dark bangs, a prissy hairstyle and a dire need for some face powder, Basinger doesn't look as good as usual, but she is a striking presence in her little red suit. Before the dinner, Nadia and Walter attend an art exhibit that will strike Northeasterners as very L.A., and he shyly asks her what a nice girl like her is doing with a free evening...
...area known as the "soccer field". This area, officially part of U.S. territory, is the final stop for most illegals before they try to make it into the States. It got its name because there is nothing to do except play soccer while waiting for it to get dark enough to cross the border...
...important port of call for exiled members of the African National Congress. She has neither ambition nor money, no currency at all except her formidable good looks. The expatriate conspirators, white and black, who gather each afternoon to plot and gossip on Tamarisk Beach are distracted by the dark-eyed, full- breasted young woman in the skimpy yellow bathing suit. She is wooed by men who want not only to possess but to politicize her as well. After hearing Hillela admit that she does not understand anything that she has not directly experienced, a high-ranking ANC official says, "Someone...