Word: gabriel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repeated his earlier charges of corruption against the former regime. "When things begin to get on the right track," he promised, "we, the men and women in arms, will return to the barracks, where we belong." After briefly answering two questions, he sat down. His hew Information Minister, Gabriel Nimely, then announced, in a flat voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, there will be some executions at 2:30." A reporter asked who was being killed, and Nimely replied: "Enemies of the people." The execution of former officials had been strongly opposed by several foreign countries, including the U.S., as well...
...head of state, he wore sunglasses and a well-pressed fatigue uniform with a hand grenade dangling from one pocket. Newly installed in the executive mansion, Doe summoned the ranking U.S. diplomat, Chargé d'Affaires Julius Walker, and sent his new Foreign Minister, former Opposition Leader Gabriel Baccus Matthews, together with a contingent of troops, to get him. Matthews showed up still dressed in the tattered shorts he had been wearing when released from jail only a few hours before...
...many of the 212,000 white citizens of the breakaway British colony, the election results announced last week indeed marked the end of their world. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, 56, the implacable, ascetic revolutionary and guerrilla leader, had won by a landslide. In three days of balloting for 80 black seats in the 100-member House of Assembly, Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) had swept up 57 seats and 63% of the popular vote. Mugabe thereby became the first revolutionary elected by popular vote in Africa's postcolonial history. Lord Soames, the British-appointed Governor, immediately asked...
...insisted that human error or mechanical failure was to blame and accused the FAA of "blowing this thing out of proportion." Said a former PATCO official: "I just cannot believe that a controller who was not certifiably psychotic would do a thing like that." Whatever the case, said Gabriel Hartl, a spokesman for the Air Traffic Control Association, only an "act of God" averted a disaster...
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Baritone Bernd Weikl and Bass-Baritone Gabriel Bacquier, Sopranos Margaret Price and Sylvia Sass, London Opera Chorus, London Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti conductor, London; 4 LPs). "Summer lightning made audible" was Shaw's metaphor for this miraculous score, and it serves well to describe Solti's performance-swift, dramatic, deft. The tragic hints in the work are systematically underplayed; the elegant comic surface remains unbroken. Colin Davis' 1974 recording, with its darker moods and more muscular texture, still provides a compelling alternative reading. But the splendid cast and Solti's conducting make this...