Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point, while courting the child's mother, the enchanter sees a glimmer of his fate "silently indicated to him by what looked like a strange naill finger." Sometimes remote, sometimes sinister, sometimes humorous, these imagist puzzles are strangely evocative, as well as tantalizing to decipher...
...made his way to a seat before the People's Tribunal. For the next 80 minutes, Tribunal President Reynaldo Monterrey read the list of charges: terrorism, violation of public security, conspiracy to commit illicit acts. As Monterrey droned on, it became clear that more was at stake than the fate of Hasenfus, who was captured ferrying weapons to U.S.-backed contra rebels after Sandinista troops shot down an American ! Fairchild C-123K cargo plane over Nicaragua three weeks ago. The prosecution would attempt to try the U.S. Government itself for "Yanqui interventions" dating from the 1850s. Complained former U.S. Attorney...
...Washington worked on these plans, Eugene Hasenfus awaited his fate, which may be decided as early as this week. "I don't believe we hired ourselves for patriotic reasons," he said last week in Tipitapa, a town outside Managua where he has been imprisoned. "It was done for the dollar mainly." Would he do it again? "If somebody asked me to, I'd ask him if he had all his marbles." Does he feel he is paying for the "sins" of the U.S. ? "Amen. Amen." Surprisingly, many of the Nicaraguans who lingered outside the courtroom seemed sympathetic toward the hapless...
...winner this afternoon (1:30 p.m., the Stadium) will have about a one-in-a-million chance at the Ivy crown, while the loser will be mathematically eliminated. Harvard (2-4 overall, 2-2 Ivy) hopes to avoid such a fate...
...order to increase their own power. Unlike the federal government, California and most other states require their Supreme Court Justices periodically to stand for approval by the voters. This year, not only will the people elect a governor, a senator, and 45 congressmen, but they will also decide the fate of six of the state's seven Supreme Court Justices...