Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firm's original opposition to the flight. He argued that since the issue had been resolved, there was no need to do so. When Mulloy took the same position, a commissioner, Air Force Major General Donald Kutyna, observed bitingly, "If this was an airplane and I just had a fight with Boeing over whether the wing could fall off, I think I'd tell the pilot." Reinartz explained that he had informed his boss, William Lucas, director of the Marshall center, who had no direct launch authority. "If you want to report a fire," said Kutyna...
...vicious assault which started an even more vicious brawl between the clubs. Thanks to the fine work of Harvard Coach Bill Cleary--who hopped to the ice and stood facing his own bench, arms out-stretched to keep his outraged players from jumping into the fight--and the efforts of Colgate Coach Terry Slater--who at one point grabbed a hold of Waslen's jersey to try and prevent him from rejoining the fray--the battle was confined to the players...
Since announcing the aid plan last week, the administration has waged a lobbying blitz that included Reagan's assertion Wednesday that the $100 million is needed "so we will never have to send our own American boys" to fight Nicaragua's leftist government...
...Filipino commission estimated Tuesday that he and his friends may have as much as $10 billion invested in Western banks and real estate. When the final decision was being made by Marcos to either abdicate or fight the demonstrators outside the Presidential palace, Imelda Marcos reportedly asked her husband, "If we wipe them out, what will happen to our assets...
...WOULD BE wrong for the U.S. to hang Marcos and Duvalier out to dry. For one thing, this would be unfair to men who, like it or not, were for many years "our S.O.B.s" in the fight against the Evil Empire. But, more important, it would send the wrong message to other despots the U.S. might one day like to spirit out on the first transport out of town. With the assurance of safe passage out of Manila and asylum in the U.S., Marcos at least chose to leave without shedding blood. If the U.S. were to now leave these...