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...when the Sandinistas began drawing closer to Cuba and the Soviet Union. At that point the government accepted $30,000 from the U.S. to send local guards to be trained in Panama, and allowed Washington to sup ply the nation with boots, tents, Jeeps, ra dios and even some low-key training. Last year the U.S. offered to rebuild a main road through the dense jungle in northern Costa Rica...
...antiwar protesters offered him a steady flow of irresistible targets. A generation of Pyne clones were soon imitating his snarl at other stations around the country, and for a time the style flourished. But Pyne died in 1970, and the popularity of his percussive style declined during the low-key 1970s. The 1980s have witnessed a comeback of sorts, as the decade's mood has become more aggressive and as the air waves, stimulated by MTV and a rejuvenated record industry, have become hotter and more competitive...
...Hollingsworths may be low-key men, but they sure...
...response to all this from Washington has been low-key and reassuring. While the Soviets wring their hands, pound their fists and wag their fingers, officials of the Reagan Administration shake their heads wearily but indulgently. Soviet-American relations are not all that bad, they say. Nor, the Administration implies, should they be all that good. The two nations are, after all, fundamentally and irreconcilably at odds over how their own societies-and indeed the planet itself-should be run. Détente was, in that sense, unnatural...
...imagine sitting down and smoking a pack of fags or drinking whisky. Being a mother's a real awakening." Hynde is still far from being the sort of model of civic rectitude that the folks back in her home town of Akron might approve. After a low-key, Midwestern small-town childhood, she took off for England, wild and a little desperate, at the age of 22, and plunged into the sort of bohemian life that, with suitable adjustments for advanced age and encroaching gentility, still obtains today. She and Davies live without benefit of paper or clergy...