Word: dawned
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Like an Ollie North of the pinstripe set, Michael Milken was the biggest draw on Capitol Hill last week, even though he barely said a word. Eager for a rare glimpse of perhaps the most powerful financier in the U.S., a crowd began to gather at dawn outside the House hearing room where he was to appear. The spectacle, however, was short-lived. The hearing promptly adjourned after Milken, 41, refused three times to answer questions, claiming his Fifth Amendment right to protection from self-incrimination...
...halted halfway up the surrounding mountains by a wavy line of thick rain forest. It is ideal guerrilla cover, and the contras have used it to put Pantasma under a siege that has lifted only as the truce has taken hold, and then just partly. A dusk-to-dawn curfew continues, and government troops still patrol the winding mountain roads leading into Pantasma...
Eventually, however, the gods smiled on the ambitious endeavor. The rosy- fingered dawn that broke over the Greek air force base at Heraklion last Saturday was accompanied by only the merest zephyrs, perfect flight weather for Daedalus. Temperatures were mild, in the high 60s, ensuring that Kanellopoulos would not burn himself out during the long flight. By 3 a.m., most members of the team were awake. Some made last-minute checks of the weather, while others gently assembled the spindly pink-silver-and-white plane and carried it to the runway. At 7:06 Kanellopoulos eased his 156-lb. frame...
...long-awaited, trustworthy heir to Walt. Eisner has established himself as a charismatic, young-dad figure by appearing each week as the host of the Disney Sunday Movie, where the husky-voiced executive clowns with Mickey, Minnie and other colleagues. "This job is so perfect for him," says Dawn Steel, president of Columbia Pictures and a former co-worker at Paramount. "He's childlike in terms of his enthusiasm and how he sees the world. He's eternally young." Nowadays when the 6-ft. 3-in. chairman strolls through Disney's theme parks with his family, fans scurry...
ALGIERS, Algeria--Shiite Moslem gunmen slipped out of a Kuwaiti jetliner just minutes before their 31 hostages were freed at dawn yesterday, ending 16 terror-filled days during which two passengers were killed...