Word: hitchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hitch, U.S. officials suggest, is that the demand sporadically issued as a condition for the release of the seven simply may not be negotiable. In return for their victims, the hostage takers have said they want freedom for 17 extremists who were convicted of the 1983 bombings of seven targets in Kuwait. Kuwait has firmly refused to release the terrorists, and the U.S. has supported its position. Besides, say U.S. sources, freeing them would not be an exchange of "innocent for innocent," or of "guilty for guilty," as in other recent swaps...
...chauffeur while a friend from M.I.T. pretended to be the author. When they arrived, the manager eagerly shook the alleged author's hand and showed him and his "bodyguards" in to a row of prime seats. The pair attest that the plan came off without a hitch...
...Senate subcommittee that oversees NASA's budget, Jake Garn once joked that if he did not get to fly on the space shuttle, he would not appropriate "another cent" to the agency. When NASA obligingly ticketed him for a trip, critics accused Garn of using his political clout to hitch a costly joyride--the ultimate congressional junket. But the Utah Republican dismissed such carping as "sour grapes." After undergoing four months of intensive training to prove that he had the right stuff, Garn blasted off aboard the 16th U.S. shuttle mission last Friday...
...communities, it is responsible to those communities and constituted to serve them. The Board of Directors is comprised of 11 faculty members and alumni and a general manager, all elected annually. The Coop furnishes books, school supplies, and other goods that the university community demands. There is just one hitch--the Coop is not saving its members money...
...caused some resistance among the others. They were chafing against the autocracy of a young man whose Arcadian visions of a mythic America (Green River, Proud Mary) were as ample and unsentimental as his urban cameos (Down on the Corner), his musical allegories (Travelin' Band), his raunchy rockers (Sweet Hitch-Hiker) and his heartsick love songs (Wrote a Song for Everyone...