Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remoteness was apparent when he unwisely tried to visit Boipatong, only to be forced out of the township by an enraged crowd. As he fled, policemen opened fire and killed three more local people. Rather than make plain his concern for the victims and the developing political crisis, De Klerk flew to Spain on a trade mission...
...Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs is befogged by mixed political motives and overzealous staff members, but it has two perfectly plain questions to answer: Were any American prisoners unaccounted for when the U.S. pulled out of Southeast Asia in 1973? Are any alive there today? Opening two days of hearings, Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the chairman, said the committee had gathered information indicating that "some Americans remained alive in Indochina after Operation Homecoming" in 1973, when North Vietnam handed back 591 prisoners. He said an additional 133, later lowered to 80, were unaccounted for, though there...
...reminiscences is pretty slim. I did have my first boyfriend and my first hangover that year, but I can't frame a piece on my entire first year around those events. No, what distinguishes my first year at Harvard is a rather undistinguishable kind of contentment. I was just plain happy...
These programs, along with his plans for education and urban renewal, will begin to reverse the disaster of the last decade. But the foreign investment part of the plan is just plain wrong...
Perot last week canceled a scheduled appearance before a Senate committee to tell his side of the story; the committee is now trying to decide whether to subpoena him. But Perot, a confirmed conspiracy theorist, has made it plain that he believes government officials have been engaged in a far-ranging plot to prevent an honest investigation into whether American POWS are still being held in Vietnam, for fear it would expose drug-smuggling operations they conducted to finance a secret war in Laos. Perot may have got that idea from Christic Institute, a leftish public-interest law firm that...