Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thousands on thousands of southern Sudanese are wandering helplessly through the vast bushland, leaving a trail of bones as they flee into overcrowded and starving towns, abandoning their blooming crops. They are driven to places like Juba by the two armies. The government denies the civilians food to keep it out of the hands of S.P.L.A. fighters. The S.P.L.A. rapes civilian women, steals civilians' food and mines their fields. Its aim is to cause chaos in the towns by flooding them with desperate refugees. "The government in Khartoum has turned its back on the south. The S.P.L.A. forces everyone...
...founding partner in the buyout firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the Manhattan socialite, 44, countered Johnson's proposal by offering to pay as much as $21.6 billion for the Atlanta-based company. As RJR's new owner, Kravis, whose firm also controls Beatrice and Safeway Stores, would probably keep the food divisions and sell the tobacco business...
...securities and stock warrants, which is still only a hazy proposal rather than a firm bid. The sheer size of First Boston's bid persuaded RJR's board to give the group until Nov. 29 to make the offer more concrete. If successful, the high-rolling group would probably keep RJR's tobacco business and sell its food groups to such consumer-product companies as Ralston Purina and Procter & Gamble...
...French Socialists. There is no great debate in France about its place in the world. The Socialists learned decades ago to accept the Gaullist vision of French grandeur, with all the trappings, military (e.g., the force de frappe) and geopolitical (e.g., the intervention in Chad). Not surprisingly, the Socialists keep winning. This year Francois Mitterrand became the first President of the Fifth Republic to win re-election...
George Bush promised during the campaign that he would fight to keep the defense budget 2% above the rise of inflation, but he is unlikely to get that much without a tax increase. Even with such an improbable hike, Bush's numbers would fall more than $140 billion short of what the military wants over the next five years. The President-elect has yet to spell out which military programs he will put on hold. Bush's likely pick for Defense Secretary, former Texas Senator John Tower, would only add to the controversy. An unabashed hawk with strong ties...