Word: eleven
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...with Iran, including heavy civilian bombing, and did not budge. A U.S. strike could make Saddam angry enough to send his tanks across the border into Saudi Arabia. Just as worrisome, the Iraqis could hold hostage the 3,800 Americans in Kuwait and, in effect, the population of Kuwait. Eleven Americans were apparently detained by the invading forces but later turned up unharmed in Baghdad...
...eleven, I was a device of the Cold...
...communicate with 25 ballplayers." Cashen looks like a genius for his decision to replace Johnson with third-base coach Buddy Harrelson. In the ensuing six weeks the Mets have gone from Bart Simpson underachievers to the Shea-hey kids, winning 70% of their games, including a streak of eleven in a row. "This is a real team now," Harrelson says with pride. "They think as a team and act as a team. It's not me, it's the whole situation." But would the talented Mets have turned their season around no matter who was in charge? Harrelson shrugs...
...stopped by a cop for oblivious driving"; "Instead of Nero/ We got Madonna/ She's fiddling with herself.") The son of a UCLA political science professor, Baerwald was born in Ohio and at the age of five trailed his father's academic career to Japan. When he was eleven, the family returned to Los Angeles, where he eventually drifted into the music slipstream and decided that "the only way to play rock music was to live." That meant skipping college. That meant parental disapproval. That meant some rough knocks and tight corners...
Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi had vowed to hunt down proponents of multiparty democracy "like rats." Last week he caged some. Over two days, police arrested eleven men linked to the nascent movement to legalize opposition parties, which Moi, in power since 1978, officially banned in 1982. Among the detainees were former Cabinet ministers Kenneth Matiba and Charles Rubia...