Word: downes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 25 years ago, Desafinado and The Girl from Ipanema swayed the world to the sinuous sound of bossa nova. Now a new generation of musicians is discovering the old seducer: Brazil. Some of the world's leading pop stars -- David Byrne, Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel among them...
The question has taken root in the power circles of Washington. It is thrown up at every White House briefing. Congress, like a hungry dog with a new bone, is jubilantly chewing on it. The question will echo down through George Bush's remaining years of stewardship and on into...
"We were not sure what was happening, but I felt something had to be done" was the way Gerald Ford explained his recapture of the cargo ship Mayaguez in the Gulf of Thailand in 1975. "Let's do it" was Reagan's simple command that sent F-14 pilots aloft...
The confrontation between Panama City and Washington may soon shift to a dispute over implementation of the treaty under which Panama is due to gain control of the Panama Canal by 1999. At year's end administration of the Canal Commission is supposed to be turned over to a Panamanian...
BUSINESS: A drive to clamp down on auto exhaust