Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prisoners of a different kind are the inmates--mostly former government officials and military officers (an estimated 10,000 countrywide)--of a showcase "re-education center" outside Ho Chi Minh City that is prettily landscaped with lotus ponds and lyrical gardens. The frightened-looking men, sallow-faced and hollow-eyed...
He had been dauntlessly enthusiastic over the prospect of receiving an artificial heart. "If you get it in right," Jack Burcham, a former railroad engineer, promised Implant Surgeon William DeVries, "I'll make it work." Getting it in right proved to be just the first of many difficulties faced by...
But the aid issue faced a much tougher climb in the Democratic-controlled House. Speaker Tip O'Neill timed a vote to be close to that of the Senate, forestalling any victory momentum. Over two days, Congressmen voted on three measures: the already abandoned military-aid proposal, a Democratic alternative...
At 5:57 a.m., the order came over the radio: the last Israeli soldiers on 6,450-ft. Mount Baruk and along the once fortified slopes of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley were to mount their tanks and armored personnel carriers and head south. There came a shout: "To the trucks...
For Alan Garcia Perez, 35, presidential candidate of the Popular American Revolutionary Alliance, victory seemed just out of reach. The youthful, center-left candidate gained an unofficial 48% of the votes cast in Peru's April 14 election, a better than 2-to-1 lead over Lima's Marxist mayor...