Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Easter Mass at the Vatican...
...other frosh recruit, Jen Minkus, also owns an impressive resume. She defeated the nation's 29th-ranked 16-and-under player in the Easter Bowl last spring in Florida...
...North America the Indian and the European stood separate. Whereas Latin America was formed by a Catholic dream of one world, of meltdown conversion, the U.S. was shaped by Protestant individualism. America has believed its national strength derives from separateness, from diversity. The glamour of the U.S. is the Easter promise: you can be born again in your lifetime. You can separate yourself from your past. You can get a divorce, lose weight, touch up your roots...
...government allows them to operate this way is to provide a pretext to kill them all, in a repeat of the massacres that occurred when authorities put down Sendero uprisings in three penitentiaries in 1986. More than 250 rebels died in the incidents. Those fears were fanned last Easter, when, according to prisoners, paramilitary troops attacked the men's pavilion at Canto Grande with fire bombs and heavy weapons, wounding eight...
...three of the rebel leaders who signed the Sapoa agreement, a State Department official contended that the contras had signed the cease-fire on the assumption that it would win them speedy approval of more U.S. aid. "Had they not worked something out, they would have gone into the Easter recess without a penny," he said. "This way, at the very least, they keep their forces together for 60 more days...