Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usually there was nothing to see, except for a mass of highly trained adults, covering one of their profession's most coveted assignments, shifting their weight and waiting for the President like courtiers. All this for a simple TV visual or possibly and answer to a single question...
...chief Border Patrol officer took us down to an area known as the "soccer field". This area, officially part of U.S. territory, is the final stop for most illegals before they try to make it into the States. It got its name because there is nothing to do except play soccer while waiting for it to get dark enough to cross the border...
...defense. Yet there were none because France is in a special position among Western democracies: there is a general consensus on defense policy. In foreign policy, broadly speaking, the situation is the same. The principles that were put forward by President de Gaulle are now accepted by everybody -- except the Communists. But cohabitation is not a logical system and not one to be adopted as a model. Since we are democrats, we have to live with it, but I hope cohabitation will end with the election ((in 1988)) of a President belonging to the majority...
...opinion on the ABM treaty is particularly vulnerable. Sofaer queried nobody from the original negotiating team except Paul Nitze, the President's special adviser on arms control. A recognized authority on the pact, Nitze supported Sofaer's conclusion that the agreement did not forbid research and testing of "exotic" weapons such as lasers and particle beams. Senators savaged Sofaer for relying heavily on the negotiating record, ignoring assurances made to the Senate during ratification. Special irritation was reserved for the way Sofaer quoted documents and sources out of context. In a courtroom, says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, such sleight...
...reporter ditches Hillela in Dar es Salaam, which has become an important port of call for exiled members of the African National Congress. She has neither ambition nor money, no currency at all except her formidable good looks. The expatriate conspirators, white and black, who gather each afternoon to plot and gossip on Tamarisk Beach are distracted by the dark-eyed, full- breasted young woman in the skimpy yellow bathing suit. She is wooed by men who want not only to possess but to politicize her as well. After hearing Hillela admit that she does not understand anything that...