Word: heaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortune had eluded Layne Heath. His brick business in Fort Worth had gone belly up. He had tried construction work and humping freight on loading docks, but without graduating far beyond the minimum wage. So to nurse his bank account and a romantic ambition, Heath pulled out his typewriter and tapped out a novel based on his days as a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam. In March William Morrow and Avon Books paid Heath $300,000 for his novel, CW2 (after his former military rank, chief warrant officer, second grade). "Beats the brick business," says Heath. "But then, anything beats...
...father, he looks out for his son's political best interests. He realizes that Medea is not from the right side of the Parthenon, so he sends her walking. Likewise, Medea's Nurse (Zoe Mulford) is looking out for her charge. Mitchell's hard-edged Creon is not exactly Heath-cliff Huxtable. But Mulford, with her sympathetic swooning and simpering, makes Mrs. Cleaver look like an absentee parent...
...time we were kids together, we all only really listened to reggae. I hardly listened to anything else, apart from Motown, Stax, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding -- and Jackie Wilson. He was my favorite." All the members of UB40 have known one another since their shared childhoods in Balsall Heath, a predominantly black neighborhood near the center of Birmingham. "It was a slum," says Campbell, but Brian Travers, who plays sax and acts as de facto spokesman, cautions, "Don't get the idea that we grew up poor, because we didn't. We didn't go hungry and have holes...
...vigorously pro-British Protestant politicians of Northern Ireland are not satisfied with such limited steps. They called upon Thatcher to reinstate the practice of interning suspected I.R.A. terrorists in prison camps without trial. Former Prime Minister Edward Heath urged Thatcher to reject internment, however, contending that it proved disastrous after the policy was introduced in 1971. Not only was Britain widely denounced for violating human rights, but the internment policy triggered a bloody I.R.A. bombing campaign. Predicts former Northern Ireland Secretary Lord Whitelaw, who abandoned the practice in 1975: "Such a move would inevitably result in violence on a truly...
...controversial case that prompted congressional investigations into the quality of military heath care, Billig had been sentenced to four years in prison for "wrongfully" performing coronary-bypass surgery on three patients who later died. Prosecutors, the appeals court said, had unfairly portrayed the experienced doctor as a "bungling, one-eyed surgeon who should have known better than even to enter an operating room because of his past mistakes." The appeals court found that the Navy had not clearly established that incompetence or dereliction of duty caused the deaths. Moreover, Billig was not the primary surgeon during any of the procedures...