Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should at least be explored. Said he: "We should see if we can build on it." Carrington observed, however, that the Soviet plan would simply ratify the conquest of Afghanistan and did not even provide guarantees for a Soviet withdrawal. The initial view of France's Foreign Minister Jean Francois-Poncet: "Nothing...
...bishop's English secretary, Jean Waddell, remained behind, and on May 1 a team of gunmen entered her apartment in search of another Anglican clergyman. First they began to strangle her, then fired two shots into her chest. She is still in serious condition. Only a week later, the bishop's son Bahrain, 24, was murdered with shots in the head and chest...
...Bateau-Lavoir. It was a public of admiring consumers, the cultivated gratin of Europe, people who needed a modern Rubens. Moreover, there had been a general recoil from extreme avant-garde art, on principle, after 1918. What seemed necessary was reconstruction, not more iconoclasm, or, in the words of Jean Cocteau, a rappel à l'ordre (call to order), which would place art under the normalizing sway of classical nostalgia. "Revolutionary" art simply did not look good around the 16th Arrondissement after October...
...groups of refugees. Says one official: "The standard is whether they would be persecuted, and very few Haitians can meet the standard." But the congressional Black Caucus charged last week that the U.S. policy is "racist," discriminating against Haitians. Supporters of the Haitians contend that Haiti's President Jean-Claude Duvalier is a right-wing dictator whose government is every bit as repressive as Castro's left-wing regime...
Ever since he succeeded his father François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier as Haiti's President for Life nine years ago, Son Jean-Claude has been known among a few close friends and many mocking enemies as Baby Doc. Though he still carries a lot of baby fat at 28, Jean-Claude is obviously a big fellow now. Over the protests of his mother Simone, he is about to marry the woman he loves, delicious Divorcee Michèle Bennett, 27. Mother objected principally because her future daughter-in-law's former father-in-law Alix Pasquet...