Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter headquarters in Boston last night the end came short and sweet. "I don't believe it." Dante Baracci of Franklin moaned, as the NBC map began flashing Reagan blue and declared the Republican presidential candidate the winner...
...hard Soviet aid, at least not enough to pump some life into Afghanistan's hemorrhaging economy. Instead, Karmal and Brezhnev signed a wide-ranging treaty of military cooperation. Said Karmal, with utter slavishness: "Were it not for the Soviet Union, there would be no Afghanistan on the political map of our planet, and all mankind would have been suppressed by the brutal barbarity of fascism and imperialism...
...rather like a storybook fable. A mist-glazed 18th century Scottish village, unknown to any map, wakes from its protective sleep one day in each 100 years. Two 20th century Americans stumble on the town's inhabitants on just that fateful day. Susceptible Tommy (Martin Vidnovic) soon tangles heartstrings with a bewitching local lass, Fiona (Meg Bussert). This actress has a voice of Baccarat crystal. When she pairs with Vidnovic to sing Almost Like Being in Love, all heaven breaks loose...
Finally he is done. Concentration had congealed his face into a map of worry lines and wrinkles proclaiming his 69 years, but now as he looks up and displays that broad, lopsided, life-is-wonderful smile, ten years disappear as if by magic. Soon he will be on the ground disseminating the message, and he knows he does it well. For more than half a century, since his first try at high school theater, he has been delivering lines onstage, over radio, in movies, on television, through newspaper columns, in speeches at formal banquets and chats in factory lunchrooms...
...this bloody conflict between two angry neighbors. That nightmare is slipping toward reality. Iran and Iraq last week continued to savage each other with bombing, missile and artillery strikes, and there were brutal battles for control of the Iranian port of Khorramshahr on the Shatt al Arab waterway (see map). Meanwhile, other states of the Middle East were ominously choosing up sides. Items...