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More than two years later, Burton was interviewing President Ferdinand Marcos at Manila's Malacanang Palace when an aide burst in and showed the President a wire service dispatch announcing Cory Aquino's candidacy in the national presidential elections. Marcos glanced at it and predicted, accurately, that Aquino and Salvador Laurel would form a unified ticket to challenge...
When Victus and his comrades decide to extend their Communist campaign to uncharted territory, they typically select a remote group of villages that have received little largesse from the central government. The first step is to dispatch an advance team to live in the home of a local family. Unlike government soldiers, whose own legacy to the village may be a trail of stolen chickens or worse offenses, the guerrillas try to behave courteously, listen sympathetically and pay their way. A nun or priest often adds a reassuring presence. They begin by organizing teach-ins and drawing out the villagers...
Northeastern needed just an hour to dispatch the Crimson (now 0-3 in regular season play) in three straight matches...
...chartered yacht spotted in New Zealand waters shortly before the explosion. The fact that Mafart and the Ouvea crew members were all experts in underwater demolition raised new suspicions. Alain Madelin, a rightist member of the French Assembly, spoke for many doubters when he bluntly questioned "the need to dispatch frogmen to take photographs...
...plea was quickly answered. The International Red Cross set about raising $2 million for reconstruction, clothing, food and medicine. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia sent $4 million in cash and ordered the dispatch to Bangladesh of 30,000 tons of wheat, tents, blankets and medical aid. Japan pledged $1.2 million, Pakistan $1 million in relief supplies. The U.S. promised $575,000 in emergency assistance and said that more would be made available as the situation warranted; the United Nations made available $500,000. Other sizable pledges came from the European Community, the West German Red Cross and Britain...