Word: march
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandinista offensive appeared hell-bent on crippling the contras. With U.S. funding for the rebels cut off since the end of February and peace talks between the contras and the Sandinistas scheduled to resume on March 21, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra saw his chance to wound his opponents badly before they got to the negotiating table. For weeks the U.S. had been monitoring a Sandinista buildup in the Bocay Valley in northern Nicaragua. But when the attacks began on March 10, they were even larger than expected. The Nicaraguan strategy was to destroy the contra bases along the Coco...
...September, the FDIC said it would pump $970 million into First City, but only if holders of the bank's bonds agreed to sell their securities for up to 45 cents for every $1 of face value. Noteholders were supposed to exchange 90% of the bonds for cash by March 8. But many of them are demanding a better deal, and when a one-week extension passed last week, only 51% of the securities had been redeemed. Stalling, First City has postponed its deadline to March 29. Frank Anderson, an independent banking analyst, likens the maneuvering between First City...
...Patrick's Day last week, an estimated 5,000 people had gathered at Belfast's Catholic Milltown Cemetery to bury three members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, the organization dedicated to uniting British-ruled Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. The I.R.A. trio had been gunned down March 6 by a unit of Britain's Special Air Service regiment in Gibraltar, where, the British government said, the three had planned a terrorist bombing...
...Harvard teams are not the only ones practicing down south. Late march is also spring training time for professional baseball, and the Harvard baseball team plans to take advantage of that fact...
Many hotel managers say they take the precaution of removing any breakable furniture during the months of March and April. "Hey, its spring break, people like their beer and things break when kids are tossing around the pigskin," Risbergs says...