Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets mount their harshest attack yet against tenacious rebels...
...personality and disposition, Jackson is not a perfect choice to make the first significant black bid for the presidency.* He is frequently blustery, volatile and egotistical. But he is the only black leader with the drive and audacity to mount such an extraordinary political campaign. Revolutions of all kinds-political, economic, social-are often led by rough-edged men, and Jackson is unexceptional in their company. The established order is invariably unnerved by firebrands with fiercely held views, especially if those views stir the masses. The press is equally "traumatized," says Jackson, who has grown cool to even the black...
...campus of the largely black University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the town of Princess Anne, in the tiny Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Oxon Hill, Md., later in Texas at a San Antonio barrio and a West Dallas project, and on Friday night in the Mount Canaan Baptist Church in Shreveport, La. To dramatize his appeal to the poor, Jackson has taken to sleeping some nights in their homes rather than in hotels. Last Monday he stayed with William Jarrard, an unemployed white Baltimorean who bears an ironic resemblance to Archie Bunker; Wednesday in the San Antonio home...
...kept residents on edge two years ago as British troops advanced across the barren hills to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentina. But these are not the sounds of war. Since last fall almost 700 men have been working up to 14 hours a day blasting through rock at Mount Pleasant, a bleak stretch of high ground 25 miles southwest of Port Stanley, the capital. They are building a new British military base with an 8,500-ft. runway that will be able to accommodate large military aircraft...
Police said Hustus was rushed by ambulance to Mount Auburn Hospital, where he was treated and released...