Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jungle skirmish. Jones wrote: "On the summit of a distant hillside, I saw a figure that made me catch my breath: a pudgy Cambodian, with field glasses hanging from his neck. The eyes in his head looked dead and stony. I could not make him out in any detail, but I had seen enough pictures of the supreme leader to convince me, at that precise second, that I was staring at Pol Pot." Cracked Cockburn of this unlikely night vision: "Jones clearly has an uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time...
...conference room. I began with a joke. I said the next few hours would tell whether what I brought was going to be known as the "Kissinger plan" (that is, succeed) or the "Sisco plan" (that is, fail). But when I went through the Israeli disengagement scheme in great detail, the mood grew frosty. The plan, said General Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, Egypt's Chief of Staff, was designed to improve Israel's security and weaken Egypt's. Sadat listened sphinxlike. Then he asked me to leave the others and go with him into the study...
...full and explicit instructions on how the U.S. Army expects its own soldiers to behave toward civilians. That, of course, includes prohibitions against massacre, but other strictures deal with the proper treatment of prisoners and noncombatants. U.S. rules of military conduct spell out internationally accepted standards in even greater detail. The instruction could eventually make important improvements in the country's grim human rights record. According to a U.S. Army spokesman, the Salvadorans are "very sensitive to this issue. It is a topic of conversation to them, as well as a topic of training...
Shooting began, and when it was over hours later, Khiabani and 21 other Mujahedin were dead. Scores of government forces were also killed or injured. According to witnesses, Khiabani's own seven-man detail of bodyguards managed to hold the government gunmen at bay until the guerrilla leader got back into the car. Another heavily armed Mujahedin squad blasted a corridor through the government forces to provide an escape route for the auto. Khiabani, though wounded, managed to drive off, but an Islamic Guard scored a direct hit on the Peugeot with a Soviet-made RPG-7 antitank rocket...
...Jaclyn Smith tackled a big one. The eleven-room French-colonial-style house in Bel Air that the actress is renovating is an architectural celebration of her swelling condition. The edifice is filled with French-provincial antiques. Soon it will be enhanced by a crib that replicates in loving detail Smith's own antique bed, complete with details like hand-painted flowers and gold leaf. The master builder is sedately curled up on a plush flower-print couch in an upstairs parlor. Now seven months pregnant, she radiates a warmth well beyond her Charlie's Angel image. Her skin...