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Word: dias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They said, `Please get food! Please get water!Please help us! They're looting. We've seen policelooting. We've seen National Guard looting.There's no law and order here," said GaryWilliams, a reporter for the San Juan daily ElNuevo Dia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hugo Threatens U.S.; Islands Left Ravaged | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...Olympics, might have won three straight. But the owner of track's longest win streak, who got off to a good start this time, seemed to run out of gas in the last 100 meters. Just ahead, his U.S. teammate Andre Phillips held off Senegal's Amadou Dia Ba at the wire to set a new Olympic record of 47.19 sec. "When the race is over," Moses said later from the sidelines, "that's when you know you can't do it." But the bronze medalist -- whom Phillips praised as "my motivation, my incentive, my idol" -- insisted he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic On the Track | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...companion, a former Miss U.S.A.-World, to a town near the Afghan border where the Congressman was to inspect the progress of the guerrilla war. Just before Christmas, Wilson took revenge. An influential member of a Defense Appropriations subcommittee, he tucked a provision into a spending bill that stripped DIA of two planes, and he eliminated the agency's exemption from Pentagon staff cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Budget's Hidden Horrors | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...DIA. OFFICIAL SOFTBALL...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: The Dandelion Club | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

...Senate report was seen by some as an implicit rebuke to the Defense Intelligence Agency, which leaked its own report critical of the State Department for not paying enough heed to DIA reports about potential terrorist activity. "We did not mean to come down on the State Department side," said a committee staffer, but, he added, "DIA, by leaking the report, did not help the debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Report on Beirutgate | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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