Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ortega faces skepticism not only abroad but also at home. In a rare display of divisiveness among the nine members of the Sandinista directorate, Interior Minister Tomas Borge seemed to try to undercut Ortega's public relations offensive last week. After Ortega announced that the priests could return, Borge declared that the 30-day jail sentences imposed on two opposition leaders last month were "not commutable." Their crime: staging a protest rally in Managua without a permit. Sandinista officials privately acknowledged that police use of electric prods and attack dogs to break up the rally had been heavy-handed...
...became a columnist for the New York Times, just as Watergate began to drag his conservative cause and many former colleagues into disrepute. Safire not only survived that debacle but prevailed: he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978, and his twice-a-week columns continue to display reportorial zeal and refreshing unpredictability. At the conclusion of the Iran-contra hearings, for example, he lectured his "fellow contra supporters" on the necessity of prosecuting members of the White House staff who broke the law. Away from politics, Safire writes essays in the Sunday New York Times Magazine on language, its uses...
Indeed, the hills are alive with the sound of music -- and money. The five- week festival is one of the priciest in Europe, with tickets running upwards of $200 for the major opera productions. For those who can afford it, though, Salzburg affords in return an unparalleled opportunity to display wealth and finery. On the street in front of the Festspielhaus, Mercedes-Benz and BMW luxury sedans steadily disgorge one of the most elegantly dressed summer crowds in Europe, the men in tuxedoes or formal Austrian loden coats, the bejeweled women in couturier fantasies and silk dress dirndls. One favorite...
Paris ordered three minesweepers and support ships to join a French naval detachment that is gathering in the region. That display of muscle is designed to strengthen France's hand in its continuing diplomatic standoff with Iran. The two countries severed relations last month after France blockaded Iran's embassy in Paris, where an interpreter suspected of terrorism is hiding. Iran responded by surrounding the French embassy in Tehran and holding 15 French citizens hostage inside...
...cute series featuring Perry Trethowan, a highborn cop. In Cherry Blossom Corpse (Scribners; 213 pages; $14.95), Barnard is back at his malicious best. Perry accompanies his sister to a convention of romance novelists where, literarily speaking at * least, murder is the least of the crimes on display...