Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death of 20 people and the injury of 100 more; 3) misappropriating government funds; and 4) ordering the torture of Jalaluddin Abdur Rahim in 1974, after the 71-year-old career diplomat complained that the Prime Minister had insulted his dinner guests by keeping them waiting until midnight for his arrival...
After the day's appointments are over, she sits on the floor of her cluttered office next door to the President's private study, and deals with the flood of letters stacked on every horizontal surface, reading and making notes until about midnight. "In the Nixon years," she says, "this office was a p.r. tool. People who came in were given a photo of the President and a list of his accomplishments. Now they tell us what they think, positive or negative. They don't all leave here getting everything they ask for. But they...
...Bolshoi Theater chorus in a fortissimo rendering of their long-lost national anthem. Not for 20 years had the rousing hymn been sung in public in the U.S.S.R. Now, the press agency Tass announced, it would be broadcast on radio throughout the Soviet Union at 6 a.m. and 12 midnight daily and at the start of each day of television programming. The anthem will also be transmitted regularly by loudspeakers in public squares and parks, on trains and street corners and in sports stadiums, concert halls and theaters. Attentive listeners to the anthem noted a significant alteration in the once...
...ominous spirit of the mysterious East is not entirely dead. It surfaces in the pain and hallucinations of breakbone fever, in a Malay medicine man who is accused of turning into a weretiger to commit murder, and in a chilling description of the noxious Midnight Horror tree: "The flowers are pollinated by bats which are attracted by the smell and, holding to the fleshy corolla with the claws on their wings, thrust their noses into its throat; scratches, as of bats, can be seen on the fallen leaves the next morning...
...Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and then by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal that Arafat, who had been shuttling between Arab states almost as rapidly as Vance himself, was "tinkering" with changes in the longstanding P.L.O. stand against Israel. Vance flashed the news to Plains in a midnight cable, and Carter again urged Palestinians to agree to Resolution 242, in order to make possible "discussions" with the U.S. and participate in a Geneva Conference...