Word: paredes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such distortions, unsettling enough in the abstract, in practical terms undermined Crile and Adams' often substantial case. In one instance of sleight of hand, Westmoreland was shown apparently acknowledging awareness of a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington at which military officers allegedly pared down enemy troop estimates to...
If the P.L.O. is eliminated as a military presence in Lebanon, the Christians could be on the verge of a return to power. Certainly this is a goal that the Israelis would endorse. But would the Christians seek to re-establish their former position with finesse and understanding, or with...
It was a strange event, at once inevitable and shockingly abrupt. Alexander Meigs Haig, 57, had been out of tune with much of the rest of the Reagan Administration from the day he took office 17 months ago as the self-proclaimed "vicar" of American foreign policy. He had been...
For Chase Manhattan, the impact of the default was plain enough. After an impressive five-year string of earnings gains, the third largest commercial bank in the U.S. was confronting the biggest single loss in its history. Still unable to explain fully how the bank's bond trading department...
DIED. Carl Orff, 86, German composer who turned his back on complex modern styles to fashion a highly personal idiom of folklike melodies and elemental rhythms; in Munich. In Carmina Burana, a 1936 cantata based on writings collected by a 13th century Benedictine monk, Orff used simple, vigorous tunes and...