Word: finalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After two years of investigation and the expenditure of $5.4 million, the House Select Committee on Assassinations last week released a final, 686-page report on the murders of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The study finds, with an unseemly amount of fanfare and self-justification, that both assassinations were the result of "probable" conspiracies. But the committee's conclusion appears to have outstripped its evidence...
...doubt. But during his bloody last stand against the Sandinistas' "final offensive," more than 15,000 people died. Another 600,000-roughly a fourth of the country's population-had been driven from their homes by Somoza's desperate, ultimately unsuccessful counteroffensive to save a regime that most Nicaraguans had learned to loathe...
...journal of the Russian Writers Union, is currently serializing At the Last Frontier by Valentin Pikul. The book is a canny mix of fact and rumor about the monk, whose skill in doctoring the Tsarina's sick son gained him inordinate influence over the royal family in the final decade of the Russian empire. By prudish Soviet standards, Pikul's empurpled prose is downright lurid. In one key scene, for example, Rasputin sneaks up to the Tsarina as she prays for her hemophiliac son. Out of the shadows steps the "bony peasant, his face framed by long hair...
Approaching the final quarter, he was second, almost shoulder to shoulder with Scott and seven yards ahead of the field. At that point, he recounted, "I said to myself: 'Now or never!' " Then came a burst of speed that seemed to leave his rivals frozen. He swept to the lead to finish 15 yards ahead of Scott, whose time of 3:51.11 was only .01 of a second slower than Jim Ryun's 1967 American record. The next eight runners all came in under...
...clean, bright, stereotype--Jewish American princess Emily, WASPy golden girl Daphne, good-timing Southern gal Annabel, and studious but passionate Chris. Jaffe drags them through a mire of messy divorces, deformed kids, homosexual husbands, and personal failures. You begin to hope each traumatic life crisis will be the final quagmire, putting the poor girl out of her misery. But of course they all surface at the 20th reunion...