Word: ores
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Incensed by a Reader's Digest article suggesting that Senator Edward Kennedy had lied about Chappaquiddick, a volunteer worker in his presidential campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Identifying herself as "a concerned citizen," Larryann C. Willis of Vale, Ore., accused the magazine of making corporate campaign contributions in violation of federal election laws...
Medical Examiner Larry Lewman in Portland, Ore., offers several possible explanations. The victims may have suffered from sleep apnea, a disorder characterized by halts, usually brief, in breathing during sleep. Or, as Lewman thinks is more likely, there may have been some disturbance in the electrical conduction system that governs heartbeat. He also notes a similarity to bangungut, or "nightmare" syndrome, a condition that strikes Philippine males and may be related to eating rice or special sauces for meat or fish. "The victims go to bed, thrash and cough and cannot be resuscitated," he says...
...Kent Kraft, assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia; Elaine T. May, assistant professor of History of American Civilization at the University of Minnesota; Heather McClave, assistant professor of English at the College; Dian Murray, assistant professor of History and East Asian Languages at Linfield College (Ore.); Stephen M. Poppel '65, assistant professor of History at Bryn Mawr College; and Ines M. Talamantez, assistant professor of Religion at the University of California at Santa Barbara...
...peacetime draft. More American citizens under arms will not improve international stability, and if a legitimate national emergency were to surface, enough would doubtless volunteer to defend the nation. Furthermore, only the Selective Service System is confident that registration would help in mobilization. As Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.) has pointed out, a real crisis requires efficient, well trained soldiers, not lists of 18-year-olds. Even some supporters of draft registration, such as Sen. Sam Nunn (DGa.), acknowledge that cutting waste in the defense budget and improving conditions for professional soldiers are more important than the sign...
...Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.), Jimmy Carter's chief foe in the fight to reactivate registration, has urged Reagan to fulfill his promise, providing the president with memoranda describing the simple process of issuing an executive order rescinding the government's right to register young...