Word: donkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...responded, "Well, BMW not the system. Babylon the system. some say BMW mean Bob Marley and Wailers. BMW mean...British Made War car or something like that. This car doesn't belong to me. This car belong to the road. That who the car belong to. Better than the donkey. It don't feed all night and mosh up the bush and in the morning it don't bray and make noise. Hyuh hyuh hyuh hyuh hyuh. (He takes a swooping draw on his joint.) I and I prefer donkey. If ya see a goat ya supposed to start communicating...
...maybe. Last week even his top advisers were asking themselves not whether but on what day President General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle would step down; rumor swirled throughout war-torn Nicaragua that his leave-taking was hardly hours away. Finally, Somoza himself spoke. "I am like a tied donkey righting with a tiger," he said in a subdued voice at week's end, referring to his war with the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). "Even if I win militarily, I have no future." He thus went ahead and placed his own future with the U.S., allowing Washington to decide...
...objects Sir Eric left behind when he went to the U.S. earlier this month. His well-timed departure came just before a coup that ousted him after twelve years of oppressive rule over the Caribbean island. On display at his residence atop picturesque Mount Royal last week were a donkey's eye, indigo, saltpeter and a mysterious white powder. Presumably these had been part of the spooky, voodoo-like rituals that the deposed Prime Minister is said to have practiced to help keep himself in power...
...doubts do not apply to Prime Minister Bazargan, 71, a respected politician known for his honesty and dour demeanor. Bazargan has described himself as a "weak donkey," ill equipped for taking on the formidable task of heading a postrevolutionary government. Last week he named part of his Cabinet, which was evenly divided between moderate politicians and Khomeini followers. Its best-known name was Foreign Minister Sanjabi, 73, head of the opposition National Front. Also included was Ibrahim Yazdi, 47, a former cancer researcher at Baylor University in Texas, who served as Khomeini's aide-de-camp in Paris...
...rage, however, that binds young and old alike in the refugee camps. Holding on to the reins of his donkey, his shoes caked with slime from open sewage drains, Mahmud Mustafa Magded, 45, shouts: "Camp David, Israel, Egypt, Syria, they're all the same. I want to go back to my country, to Ashkelon...