Word: illness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real loser was the centrist Christian Democratic Party of incumbent President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is terminally ill with cancer. Having lost control of the legislature to ARENA a year ago, the Christian Democrats will hand over the chief executive's office on June...
...coach Pingatore worried about Carl's low marks and the risk that he might lose the scholarship. Pingatore had an idea for bringing up Carl's grade-point average. He had Carl enroll in two correspondence courses -- American government and civics -- at the Loretto Extension Service in Wheaton, Ill. Carl did assignments in a workbook under the tutelage of Pingatore. He received an A in both courses. The grades were recorded on his regular high school transcript. There was no reference on the transcript to any correspondence courses. The only thing to set the courses apart was the postgraduation completion...
Controversy over the ill-fated flight revived when London's Daily Mail obtained a memo from the British Ministry of Transport dated Dec. 19. The alert warned British airlines and airports and some foreign carriers of a new type of terrorist bomb, packed with the Czechoslovak-made explosive Semtex, that could be hidden in a radio-cassette player. The memo contained an elaborate list of clues for detecting such devices, including the failure of the cassette player to function normally and more wiring than usual for a portable player. "Its sophistication, and the effort taken to conceal it," said...
...Curtain has the region experienced so much change. So far, Washington and its allies have been restrained in trying to turn events in Moscow's front yard to their advantage -- and they may keep it that way. -- British and U.S. officials acknowledge bomb alerts prior to Flight 103's ill-fated voyage. -- Peru lurches toward chaos...
Berlin, indicted in the investigation dubbed "Ill Wind," pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, receiving a bribe, wire fraud and making false statements. Teledyne Industries pleaded guilty to conspiracy and two counts of making false statements in connection with a contract with one of its divisions--Teledyne Electronics of Newbury Park, Calif.--worth about $24 million...