Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Girl. She is 20, with a smiling, seemingly untroubled face, a saleswoman in a Salisbury shop catering to whites. Five years ago, she was one of 86 students jammed aboard a school bus near the Mozambique border. The bus was blown apart by a mine; 80 died. The girl was hospitalized for two months with multiple fractures and a puncture wound near her heart. She had been back in her boarding school only a week when ZANIA guerrillas entered the dormitories one night as the pupils were undressing for bed. Three hundred children-some naked, others in nightdress-were marched...
...President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada was still at large. He had been variously reported to have fled to Zaire, the Sudan or Iraq, as well as to several points around his own country. At week's end he was said to have been spotted in a village near the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale, traveling in a Land Rover full of radio equipment and accompanied by five Libyan bodyguards...
...addition, Americans are using many sources of credit over which the Federal Reserve has little direct control. Sears, Roebuck and other retail chains are pushing instant credit, as are finance companies, credit unions and similar "near banks." Moreover, bank depositors can lay their hands on credit and cash around the clock by sticking plastic cards into street-corner automated teller machines. Says Finn Caspersen, chairman of Beneficial Corp., which charges up to 20% interest on personal loans: "The consumer is borrowing today's dollar to get today's goods and is paying back with tomorrow's inflated dollars...
...while serving a 14-year sentence for "anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation" at Vladimir Prison near Moscow, Moroz went on a 20-week hunger strike to protest his confinement and poor living conditions at the prison...
...predominantly female crowd gathered near the State House to protest the murders, news of the ninth murder was released and a hush fell over the assembly. Many women angrily changed the number of killings listed on their placards...