Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...housing committee of two students and twomembers of the tutorial staff assign rooms torising sophomores according to what preferencesthey list in the spring. For juniors and seniors,there is a lottery and a big map from whichstudents select their room choices...
...before, at the State Department, an identical package had been delivered to Jovito Salonga, head of the official Philippine commission charged with recouping the scattered wealth of deposed President Ferdinand Marcos and his free-spending wife Imelda. In all, the 2,300 pages formed an intriguing if incomplete treasure map of the vast fortune that Marcos, his family and cronies command. The cache only confirmed much of what Salonga had already unearthed among the personal effects the Marcoses abandoned in Manila more than a month ago. But he was outraged nonetheless. "I am shocked," he said. "I cannot imagine this...
Displaying a map of the region and an airfield photo from Nicaragua, the President charged members of the ruling Sandinista regime with selling illegal drugs to Americans, using their country as a terrorist command post and threatening the security of the Western alliance by seeking to spread revolution through Central America to the Panama Canal...
...back door of superpower confrontations. As dean of the diplomatic corps, he stood shoulder to shoulder with U.S. Presidents to greet visiting heads of state at the White House. As Henry Kissinger's intimate, he sat time and time again by a crackling fire in the White House Map Room, where Franklin Roosevelt planned World War II, to worry through Soviet-U.S. frictions. He was, in Kissinger's view, the best barometer of the Kremlin's mood. His soundings of American politics and policy were obviously on the mark --or the Soviets would have cashiered him long...
...helping to achieve a peaceful transition in Manila, he made a rather forced comparison: "We stood for democracy in the Philippines," he said. "We have to stand for democracy in Nicaragua." He conjured up visions of an inexorable Communist advance: "If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now." Then he invoked the greatest threat of all in the post-Viet Nam era: "We send money and material now," he warned, "so we'll never have to send our own American...