Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Bok & Co. were opening up a 38-23 halftime edge. Bok recovered from a Meyers "in-the-face" driving lay-up with a nifty two-hand set shot from downtown en route to an eight-point first half. Bok saw the roundball on severla occasions, thanks to the generous passing of subordinate Wyatt, who, like any aspiring Veep, shoveled it to his boss continually...
...summoned a meeting of Rumania's Political Executive Committee. The group decreed a state of emergency, requisitioned food stocks, shut off all gas mains in the capital, and closed the university, presumably to create temporary shelter for the homeless and wounded. Troops cordoned off major portions of the downtown area to protect people from falling masonry, and possibly to prevent looting. Sports stadiums in the city were converted into makeshift hospitals, and more than 50 American medical students in the country were among those pressed into relief service...
...taken in by Amin's personal goon squad, the oddly named State Research Bureau (S.R.B.), a sadistic crew of sports-shirted killers who wear dark glasses even at night and seem to have carte blanche to kill. They will flag down a car in broad daylight in downtown Kampala and drag the terrified driver out and lock him in the car trunk, then drive the car away, all in full view of passive onlookers who know better than to protest or intervene. Not a single person bundled off in this manner has ever been seen alive again...
...African Prime Minister John Vorster and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Vorster received Elson with Reporter Peter Hawthorne in his 18th-floor office in the Hendrik Verwoerd Building in Cape Town; Smith spoke with Elson and TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs the following day in his sparsely furnished office in downtown Salisbury. Vorster appeared to be stolid but relaxed; Smith's answers were plain-spoken and understated. But in essence, both men made clear their hard-line conviction that whatever political transition is to evolve in southern Africa, it must take place largely on their own terms. Excerpts from...
...time he returns from Acapulco's sun next week, Henry Kissinger should have a fully operational office awaiting him. Surrounded by crates loaded with personal papers, the former Secretary of State's six aides are setting up shop in a corner suite atop a downtown Washington office building. The space was made available by Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies. Kissinger will lecture at Georgetown for six months at a salary of about...