Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makeshift sign hanging over the entrance to the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, but the message in black letters was plain and specific: SOLIDARITY LIVES. Three days before, Poland's parliament had passed a law formally abolishing the independent trade union, yet, as the simple banner at the union's Baltic birthplace made eloquently clear, Solidarity supporters were not yet ready to bury all the aspirations and hope that had been inspired by the reform movement, however powerful the suasions and muscle of Poland's military regime. In Gdansk and other cities across the country last week...
Omani and Western planners fear that South Yemen, with additional East-bloc backing, might be able to launch a tank attack against the principal Omani airbase at Thamarit in the desert plain north of Salalah, the capital of the Dhofar. An armored column would need only five hours to reach Thamarit. That threat is one of the many contingencies that the U.S. R.D.F. is meant to deter and to thwart if it ever arises. Therefore the Jade Tiger maneuvers will probably have the U.S. Air Force landing large transports at Thamarit, which has one of the longest runways...
...Cleveland Indians have offered Billy Martin a three-year contract worth at least $1 million that would allow the feisty skipper to keep his status as baseball's highest-paid manager. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported in today's editions...
...there is more to these acts of trust than plain necessity. The poisoning of the Tylenol capsules proves how treacherous and uncertain is the world...
...Dimas Valle Acevedo, 35, and Santiago Gómez González, 32, ex-corporals in El Salvador's national guard. They were apprehended, underwent lie-detector tests, confessed and were formally arrested. Both were at the Sheraton Hotel on the night of Jan. 3, 1981, serving as plain-clothes bodyguards for police officers visiting the hotel. One of those officers was Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrian, 26, known as "Posorito," or "Little Match," for his naming red hair, fiery temper and anti-Communist views...