Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went up in 181 cities across the nation to kick off a final drive for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Only one year remains until the deadline set by Congress. Supporters of ERA chanted in New York, prayed in Atlanta, held candlelight vigils in Fort Lauderdale. The stars came out in Los Angeles (Singer Helen Reddy), in Boston (Author Jules Feiffer) and in Denver (former First Lady Betty Ford). In Washington, D.C., a crowd of 2,500 cheered when Actor Alan Alda declared: "You don't have to be conservative to be against...
Some members of Wildmon's coali tion contend that is not so. Says Karen Davis of Fort Worth, Texas, local leader of Christian Women's National Concerns: "Our group is not so much for limitation of TV shows, as it is to get shows that are of a high quality on TV." Most coalition spokesmen, however, appear to share Falwell's goal of making every program on the tube suitable for family viewing. For jxample, Dan Fore, Moral Majority's New York State chairman, says that TV should return to shows like I Love Lucy...
...Harvard senior was killed Tuesday in a hiking accident near Fort William, Scotland, after she became lost in heavy mist on Ben Nevis, Great Britain's highest mountain...
...that Wilson and Terpil had set up a training program in Libya in "espionage, sabotage and general psychological warfare." It included a laboratory near Tripoli for making assassination bombs disguised as ashtrays, lamps or teakettles. An active CIA agent, Pat Loomis, allegedly helped induce some Green Berets training at Fort Bragg, N.C., to leave the Special Forces and join the Libyan operation as instructors...
...except for the neon yellow handrail, very dark on the footbridge spanning the road that bisects South of the Border. An occasional car goes by beneath, headlights playing on the walls of Fort Pedro ("all kind Confederate souvenirs and most legal fireworks you gonna find anywhere"). In the distance are the pinball and the gas station and the tamale stand. And on one of the three "sweem" pools, this sign: "Pool for the use of hotel guests only. All others will be hanged by the neck until dead...