Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vernon Jordan is shot down in Fort Wayne. The biggest question...
...landed on U.S. soil, with thousands more still expected to arrive on the boats now at Mariel. Authorities opened a new refugee processing center last week at the military reservation in Indiantown Gap, Pa., to handle the spillover from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base and Arkansas' Fort Chaffee. By week's end the new camp held a capacity crowd of 20,000 and a fourth center, Camp McCoy near Sparta, Wis., opened its gates...
...annually. But competition has been getting stronger. Last year the Canadian government began selling its 1-oz. Gold Maple Leaf, and this spring the Mexicans started promoting the Centenario. Beginning this month Americans will also be able to buy 1-oz. and ½oz. medallions made from Fort Knox gold. These will be medallions-and not gold coins-and thus cannot be used at the corner drugstore. They will be sold through post offices, with the cost being set at the daily gold price plus a handling charge of about $15. The ½oz. version will bear a portrait...
...Western and Midwestern states. In addition, 210,000 I'M MAD TOO, EDDIE stickers have been put on hard hats and bumpers from Denver to Houston. Texas oil company executives even wear pins carrying the slogan on their lapels. Just about everywhere he goes these days, people ask Fort Worth Oil Millionaire Harrell Edmund (Eddie) Chiles, 70: "Are you mad today, Eddie...
...answer is invariably yes. After three years of inundating radio air waves with his "What's Wrong with America" sermons, Eddie Chiles is now leading a drive to unseat Fort Worth Congressman and House Majority Leader Jim Wright. "Jim Wright is a socialist," he charges. Replies Wright condescendingly: "I just have to feel sorry for anyone who is always looking for things to be mad about." Chiles accuses Wright and other Washington officials of wild Government spending, runaway regulation and tyrannical bureaucracy...