Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their college class graduates. Twelve years ago, unable to defend roughly this same restrictive position in court, pro basketball gave in to University of Detroit Underclassman Spencer Haywood and since then has grabbed a few children from high schools. Baseball always preferred that teen-age prospects matriculate in the minor leagues...
...exchange for cooperation, the subjects got free physical examinations, treatment for minor ailments, rides to and from the PHS clinics, hot meals and a guarantee that $50 would be given to their survivors to pay for a burial. Some joined because this amounted to the closest thing to health care and burial insurance they could expect...
...relative quiet, Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 40, has apparently returned to his waspish ways. In the past six weeks, he has placed additional military units on the Tunisian border, provoked religious strife in Nigeria, and sponsored terrorists in the Central African Republic. Each of those taunts was minor, but another apparently was not: a series of Gaddafi moves that the Administration perceived as a threat to neighboring Sudan. Reagan decided this was a timely moment for temporary exercises; the visit of the AWACS would silently, but eloquently, reassure U.S. allies and chasten Gaddafi. Moreover, the Nimitz and its planes...
...challenge to Administration policy was a minor but troubling one. For the moment at least, congressional opposition is not as strong as it may appear. The majority of U.S. legislators are trying to ignore the prickly El Salvador issue. Explained Leach: "In the public mind, there's a great wish that the issue would go away. Like Viet Nam, it's something we'd like to forget. But, like any issue, some people won't let it be forgotten, some for political reasons, some for humanitarian...
...minor irritation, however, compared with the hazards of long-term space flights. U.S.S.R. Cosmonauts Anatoli Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev returned last December from their record-breaking 211-day flight in obviously debilitated condition. Soviet TV clips showed the cosmonauts being helped into a hot whirlpool bath. Even though they had exercised daily, the prolonged weightlessness left their muscles so flabby that for a week they were barely able to walk. Five weeks after the landing, TASS, the Soviet news agency, reported that they were in the Caucasus continuing "to undergo rehabilitation...