Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kremlin issued a three paragraph statement last night saying work was under way to decontaminate housing near the power plant. Soviet television broadcast footage of the evacuated 18-mile zone around the plant, showing some decontamination workers in gas masks and other people in street clothes...
...quality of the story may be judged from the paragraph: "When six soldiers raped the four-year-old daughter of a peasant family he had befriended in Cuba and then dismembered the entire family, Williams said he realized the Marxist cause was not genuinely reformist...
...denouement emerges in the final paragraph: "Williams, who has been on a lecture tour for three months, said his aim is to alert Americans that communist forces are infiltrating and subverting American society. He said the advances of pornography, the increased acceptance of homosexuals, and gains by anti-school prayer forces are examples of "cultural terrorism...
...Hodel's office for a 75- minute session during which the Secretary implored him to leave his post gracefully. Iacocca said he would do so only if the conflict of interest allegation were clearly spelled out. Hodel finally picked up a letter and read aloud its operative paragraph: "I have determined that this matter is not subject to debate . . . I must inform you with regret that your chairmanship of, and membership on, the commission are terminated." He signed the letter and handed it to Iacocca...
...enjoyed reading Joe Kahn's article on Derek Bok Friday, Jan. 10. Although the title suggested a news analysis on Bok's possible departure, the text was laughably mushy, from the "dawn of the Bok era" in paragraph eight through the "confidence and polish" Bok now demonstrates as he covers "all angles with ease and refinement...