Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keyed on their main shooters on the power play," freshman Todd Forman said. "The others weren't as good, fortunately, and they missed...
...Haiti no one was either making promises or asking for any from the new regime. At first, the coup caught many Haitians, including the main opposition groups, by surprise. But as mutinous troops arrested commander after commander, a strange civilian counterpart to the revolt began to take place in key state corporations. Top officials of the water, electricity and phone companies were told by their staffs that they were no longer in charge. The governor of the Central Bank, Onill Millet, was "fired" by his employees and thrown out of the building...
...main thrusts of Bush's attacks on his foe was to portray him as one of the "big-spending liberals" who see Government as the main solution to social problems. Bush stressed the need for voluntary action by individuals and private organizations, for example, to improve life in urban ghettos. He several times praised the "thousand points of light" in helping to solve the plight of poor children whose lives, he has said, "haunted him." Dukakis chided Bush for being vague. "Thousand points of light? I don't know what that means." The audience chuckled at the sarcasm. Bush explained...
...downtown Tokyo, people gathered outside the walled and moated Imperial Palace to watch and pray. Tens of thousands lined up to sign visitors' books at the main palace gate and elsewhere throughout the country. Autumn festivals, including Tokyo's Grand Ginza extravaganza, were canceled, as was the 100th-anniversary celebration of the daily Asahi Shimbun. Said Mitsu Fujisawa, 112, believed to be the oldest person in Japan: "I have worshiped His Majesty for a long time. I hope he will recover and live longer than I have...
...began plotting to remove him. Namphy learned of the coup through a defector and planned to arrest about 75 guardsmen. But on Saturday, Sept. 17, two tanks and some 650 troops surrounded the National Palace. Desperate, Namphy called for help from Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, who commands Haiti's main military barracks. Paul hurried to the scene but without mustering his men. When Namphy finally grabbed a megaphone and tried to persuade the rebellious troops to leave, they responded with M-60 machine-gun fire. Namphy then surrendered and was flown to exile in the Dominican Republic, where he remains...