Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cohorts roared past at breakneck speeds, narrowly missing other vehicles. Music blasted from portable radios and car stereos, commingling with the whoops of riders and the growl of unmuffled engines. The air stank of gasoline. Usually clear, the Black River in places ran the crayon green of a sewage ditch as algae were stirred up by the commotion...
...Moscow summit: if Noriega would leave Panama shortly after Aug. 12, the fifth anniversary of his taking office, he could return for the Christmas holidays and permanently after his country's 1989 presidential elections. Another sweetener was an offer of $90 million in American aid. Although Noriega was to ditch new President Manuel Solis Palma after the formation of a "national reconciliation" government, another henchman, Colonel Marcos Justines, would continue to head the PDF. Most important, the drug charges would be dropped -- a proposition that drove even the relentlessly loyal Bush to his first public break with a Reagan policy...
...read that very easily." Johnston's classic Dixie charm plays well with Southern Senators. While he does not believe the election will turn on back scratching and horse trading, he has done his share of both, and it could prove helpful. "When a Senator's ox was in the ditch and you helped pull it out, he'll remember that," he says...
...three, it was the Redmen who were trying to crawl out of a ditch...
...other hand, any attempt at a "stop Jackson" movement, especially if it comes as a last-ditch effort at the convention, would backfire and profoundly alienate the Democratic party's most loyal constituency--the Blacks. Such an effort would weaken the eventual Democratic nominee by driving Black voters away from the polls...