Word: pack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Cliff Sheehan, winner of the indoor Heps outstanding performer award, burst out of the pack in the 1500 to overtake O'Neal down the stetch, while Co-Captain John Perkins claimed the third spot...
...last U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, Martin had just eleven minutes to pack and evacuate the embassy as South Viet Nam neared its final collapse. Martin left behind family portraits and mementos of more than two decades in the Foreign Service, but he did manage to salvage top-secret documents from the embassy. In 1978 the FBI investigated his handling of the files, but the Justice Department later decided not to prosecute. Martin, 72, has retired to Winston-Salem, N.C. He does not believe the war had to end in such a disastrous manner. "Had President Nixon served out his term...
...tradition that has been established here far exceeds any fundraising event we've ever had," Andrews told a small gathering of event organizers and supporters. "This is definitely the leader of the pack," he said, noting that few other college efforts raise more than $1000 or $2000 for the Jimmy Fund...
...contrast to its brutal relocation of 10,000 Miskito Indians from the Atlantic coast in 1981 and 1982, the government is giving the new evacuees a few days' notice, then sending in troops to help them pack up and move. Some owners of coffee plantations have even been paid market rates for the farms they were forced to leave. The government is also providing food, temporary shelter, medical centers and individual farm plots to the 7,000 evacuated families that will be placed in 47 resettlement camps. While many of the refugees are suspected of having collaborated with the contras...
Before the indictment was returned, Veliotis left for Greece, stopping only to pack corporate documents and tape recordings of business conversations from his years as a General Dynamics executive. Most of the records have now been turned over to the Justice Department. Veliotis denies offering them to federal prosecutors in exchange for dropping the kickback charges, but no doubt he hopes his cooperation will improve chances for a future bargain. Another motive for releasing the records: a combination of personal revenge and belated remorse. "I was part of a team convinced that the way we did business was just fine...