Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Viet Nam Combat Survivor Richard Anderson espouses some maverick ideas for a post commander of the conservative Veterans of Foreign Wars. "Our job," says Anderson, head of Post 5888, Santa Cruz, Calif., "is to keep people from becoming veterans." Last April the 36 members of Post 5888, most of them...
It almost seems like Detroit's go-go days again. And some of the resonances from the old times seem ironic. "In many ways," reckons a member of the Ford family, "Iacocca and Henry Ford are alike." Iacocca, for instance, can be an unreasonably terrifying boss. Says one chewed-out...
Nonetheless, Iraq began to celebrate as soon as War Communique 1774 announced that its forces "had achieved victory over the Iranian invaders in the Huwaiza marshes in a unique epic of warfare." Schools and offices closed, and city streets soon filled with dancing, chanting throngs. In smaller towns, crowds marched...
British legal scholars say this power to suppress exists in a democratic society because Britain has no American-style bill of rights to guarantee basic liberties or the citizen's right to know. As a result, many Britons increasingly have come to fear that a government could use the Official...
Any topic attracting Bird's research inevitably prompts a fascination aboard the hotel jitneys that deliver the Celtics players to airport or gym. As the Kennedy round table inexorably revolves to sex lives, Bird muses, "Who was that blond actress Kennedy supposedly dated?" This brings smiles. How could anyone know...