Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Josh Caplan scored a short-handed goal with two minutes left in the final game, he breathed some life into the crowd, if not some oxygen into the wilting Crimson...
...This week you should do your sightseeing," suggested United Nations Mediator Diego Cordovez to journalists gathered in Geneva last week. That advice was the first sign that the pace had slowed in what was to be the final round of talks aimed at settling Afghanistan's eight-year-old civil war. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev had set March 15 as the target date for concluding the negotiations, promising that if it was met, Moscow would begin withdrawing its 115,000-member army of occupation from Afghanistan by May 15. Yet last week key negotiators, including Pakistani Minister of State Zain...
...Dole, Bush's strongest adversary, teetered on the brink of withdrawal even as he fought for revival in this week's Illinois primary. Dole cut half his campaign staff and canceled television ads in Illinois while scrambling to broadcast a half-hour final appeal on Saturday night. A frequent adviser who ranks as politics' reigning expert on defeat and redemption, Richard Nixon, wired encouragement: MAKE ILLINOIS YOUR FINEST HOUR...
...Republican Party in South Carolina, invested early and heavily in organization across the Old Confederacy and border regions. From the handful of Republican Governors down to county chairmen, party centurions were wooed and won long before Dole's emissaries began courtship. That foundation was invaluable during the campaign's final fortnight. Under little pressure from his floundering opponents, Bush was able to coast on a risk-free cloud. For ten days he avoided interrogation from the national press corps following him in a separate plane, preferring the gentler treatment of local reporters...
Gunsmoke's final two days gave Hamilton a chance to test his faith. The target was an old Navy surplus plane surrounded by protective earthen dikes. Pilots had to approach it "in the weeds" -- 200 feet above ground again -- from 150 miles out, flying over pretarget locations at precise times. Finally, Hamilton and others had to evade smoke missiles while dropping a bulky parachute-equipped 500-lb. bomb. Hamilton, alone among all Gunsmoke pilots, elected to try an F-16 computer program called dive toss. The pilot fixes the target inside a box projected on the up screen, punches...