Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mobuto Sese Seko Nkuku wa za Banga (just plain Mobuto to his friends)--a man who tortures students for complaining about inflation, a man who throws loyal government ministers in prison for sneezing improperly, a man who likes to watch a good hanging now and then--will speak Thursday at Harvard's very own Institute of Politics on the subject, "Peace and Progress in Southern Africa...
...entertainer Merv Griffin, leaving Griffin with $925 million in debt. "I gave that obligation to Merv," says Trump now. "He got the debt, and he got the low-income housing." These days, to satisfy a city beautification ordinance, Trump has tried to get the Trump Plaza garage, a plain block of white concrete, declared a work...
Steel Wheels is the name of the record; Nothing Ventured would have suited too. It boasts five reprobates cranking themselves up for yet another crack at the distance, showing their years -- flaunting the things, in point of plain fact -- while they swan around some of the nation's largest concert stages, soaking up the applause and the revenues, blowing off their greatest hits, taking the new material out for an audience airing...
Without the slightest warning, Germany's General Walther von Brauchitsch sent the Fourth Army smashing through the disputed Polish Corridor, isolating the Free City of Danzig; the Eighth and Tenth Armies striking over the Vistula plain toward Warsaw; the Fourteenth Army driving across Silesia toward Cracow -- 1.5 million men in all, led by a fearsome new military force, the 2,700 fast-moving panzers (tanks) of the German armored divisions...
Despite the Tela plan's promise, few observers are ready to pronounce the contras dead. Such pronouncements have been issued before. And the rebels made it plain last week that unless the Sandinistas agreed to negotiate with them as equal partners, they had no intention of disarming. If the contras fail to lay down their rifles voluntarily, no one is offering to take the weapons by force...