Word: grounds
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...with a half-sour pickle, a pint of brown ale, a dozen baby back ribs and a cannoli, all in 45 minutes? Will the Secret Service have the sense to avoid disaster by leaping in front of their candidate and wrestling the innocent-looking kielbasa to the ground...
...instructed the armed forces that we would not tolerate it again," he said. The Cessnas' fate was therefore sealed the minute they decided to venture back near Cuban airspace. On Tuesday, Madeleine Albright, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., read from transcripts of intercepted radio conversations between Cuban ground control and the pilots of the two MiGs that blew away the Cessnas. Just after he fired a missile, one pilot gleefully spoke of shooting off his target's "cojones...
There will be more tit-for-tat scenarios, more struggles for what is perceived as the high ground. One certain sticking point is the amount of money Diana will receive. The figure usually mentioned is $23 million, but whether that will come in a lump sum or an annual dole has yet to be haggled over. Last week the senior royals--the Queen and Prince Charles--attended the memorial ceremony for the Gulf War dead. The regal phalanx was secondary news as papers devoted pages to Diana's latest crisis. That sort of snub inspires the kind of resentment that...
Neither plane entered Cuban airspace, but the Castro government nonetheless authorized its fighter pilots to shoot down the Cessnas. Recently disclosed transcripts of the communications between the MiG pilots and Cuban ground control during the conflict provide conclusive evidence that the Castro government, at the time of the shooting, was aware of the fact that the two planes were unarmed and piloted by civilians...
This year, however, the inclement weather has become a particular hassle for those who play spring sports on the varsity level. The teams have yet to get outdoors, and with eight inches still on the ground, the prospect of normal practice seems more like a distant hope...