Word: posey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good health, he's being treated well." The portrait of Hall that began to emerge was of a troubled loner with a Rambo complex that has earned him the nickname Sambo. "In his imagination he was going to be Rambo, but it backfired in his face," says Thomas Posey, director of Civilian Materiel Assistance (C.M.A.), an Alabama-based paramilitary group that expelled Hall 15 months ago after he pressed the group to broaden its anti-Communist activities. Adds a U.S. official: "Hall really thought he could just walk into the bush and blast Commies...
...group most visibly involved in combat training is the Alabama-based Civilian Military Assistance, headed by Tom Posey, an ex-Marine, who claims to get his funds from private citizens. F.D.N. officers say that Posey's men are instructing contra units in the use of recently acquired surface-to-air missiles. Posey denies it. Says he: "Where did they dream that...
Anthologies serve as our means of determining the representative poets of an age. Of course Lonsdale's edition still includes the poetry of the most renowned eighteenth century poets such as Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Blake. Yet the new edition also includes a wealth of posey from more obscure pens. Included in Lonsdale's volume are poems from people of all walks of life including women peasants, and the always elusive Anonymous. The anthology offers a more representative sampling of poems--Lonsdale includes 230 to Smith's 137--and a better feeling for the people of the time...
...casual origin of CMA was explained by Tom Posey, 38, a balding former Marine who is one of its founders. He said that he and four other veterans began meeting in Huntsville restaurants in July of last year, "just shooting the bull about what we could do to help" the anti-Communist forces in Central America. "At first we didn't know there was even anything going on in Nicaragua. We thought the contras were Communists...