Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the six-member political directorate of the contras offered to travel to Managua to hold direct talks with the Sandinistas. "So far the Sandinistas have been able to comply with the easy part of the plan," said Alfredo Cesar. "We are starting today the hardball game." Ortega swiftly warned that the rebel leaders would be jailed if they tried to return to Nicaragua without first applying for amnesty. But aides close to Arias expect that the Sandinistas will soon grant a concession on this point. They claim that Ortega has quietly asked Arias for help in persuading some...
...missile assault, assumed to be the work of Iran, was the first direct attack on any of the eleven Kuwaiti tankers that have been registered under the American flag and guarded by the U.S. Navy since July. The Administration quickly denounced the attack as an "outrageous act of aggression." As top national security officials gathered at the White House on Friday to formulate strategy, there was widespread speculation that the U.S. would retaliate, perhaps by attempting to destroy the Chinese-made Silkworm missiles thought to be responsible. Asked what the U.S. should do, a senior naval officer preparing papers...
...most direct way to give art back into the community was to literally hang it on the street signs...
AMERICAN schools, in an addled misunderstanding of democratic respect for diversity of opinion, try hard to avoid such direct, coercive teaching--and democracy suffers. Schools where allegiance to the flag is taught have been the targeted with law suits...
...form of skin cancer common to AIDS victims, in June 1980, before the epidemic had been perceived by physicians. Told later he was endangering anyone he slept with, Dugas unrepentantly carried on -- by his estimate, with 250 partners a year -- until his death in March 1984, adding countless direct and indirect victims. At least one man indignantly hunted him down. Dugas' charm proved unfailing: he sweet-talked the man into having sex again...