Word: pleasing
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That moderation, however, is increasingly endangered by a wave of religious fundamentalism washing through the Shi'ite community. In June of 1982, an aide to Berri, Hussein Musawi, broke away to form a radical splinter group, the Islamic Amal. Musawi has since forged close links with Islamic Jihad, the...
Although this tiresome monologue isn't much of a play, Philip Baker Hall does his best with the material and puts in a good performance as Nixon. With his deep, grumbly voice, he sounds like Nixon; with his long, flabby nose, brushed-back strands of greasy hair, baggy eyes and...
DIED. Tran Van Huu, 87, Prime Minister of Viet Nam from 1950 to 1952; in Paris. Huu, a wealthy financier, based his pro-French Vietnamese government on his country's small upper class, exiled his ablest political associates and ignored French pleas to fight insurgent forces of the Communist...
The Great Plains and the Midwest were hit hardest by the air mass that rolled in from Canada. In Big Timber, Mont., the wind chill factor (a combination of 15-m.p.h. winds and temperatures of 40 below zero) made it feel as if it were -85°. In Minneapolis, the...
Instead, Syria blinked. As Arafat's forces retreated to Tripoli after putting up a fierce fight against superior numbers in the city's suburban refugee camps, it became clear that the wily chairman could hold out longer than expected. The Saudis and the Soviets, reluctant to see Arafat destroyed, began...