Word: monthlong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government troops kept up the pressure, raiding two more ranches belonging to cocaine kingpin Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, where they confiscated two tons of weapons allegedly used by death squads. Yet despite President Virgilio Barco Vargas' determination to continue his crusade against the Extraditables, the monthlong counterattack by the cartel has begun to take its toll. Weary of the violence, Colombians from all sectors of society are calling for a truce and a direct dialogue between the government and the drug barons. Former President Alfonso Lopez Michelson says Colombia will have to "eventually sit down and talk things out with...
Eager to flee Washington last week for a monthlong recess, Congress worked well past its deadline, arguing over how to finance a ten-year, $166 billion federal rescue plan for more than 500 insolvent savings and loans. The busted thrifts are losing about $20 million a day. When a compromise with the White House threatened to unravel Friday, it looked as if the lawmakers would leave town without solving the problem...
...opposition benches and lay claim to the popular mandate the trade union won in the June 4 legislative elections, when it captured all 161 seats open to it in the Sejm and 99 out of the 100 Senate seats. The economic experiment also ! faces challenges. Last week, as a monthlong wage-and-price freeze was lifted, prices doubled and even trebled...
...next day, Ortega emerged from a two-hour meeting with Obando, attended by Wright, and announced an eleven-point cease-fire proposal for Nicaragua. His plan calls for a monthlong cease-fire to take effect on Dec. 5. During the cease-fire, armed contras would be confined to one of three zones spread over a 4,200-sq.-mi. area. All military shipments to the rebels would halt during that period, but supplies of clothes, food and other nonlethal aid could be delivered by neutral international agencies. Under the proposal, any contras who lay down their arms will be granted...
...summer of 1982, with Dukakis locked in a tight race for Governor, his wife invented a mythical case of hepatitis to mask her monthlong stay at the Hazelden Rehabilitation Center in Center City, Minn. Defending this cover- up at a press conference last week, Dukakis said, "It was very important to her that this not be public, and I respected that...