Word: postings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joyner said that she intends to pursue a career in writing--she has already written 10 children's books--and acting. Her immediate post-retirement plans include writing an athletic novel, portraying a "female 007 character" in the movies, and appearing in two television shows...
...inaugural post-season national nine-man tournament held this weekend at Yale's Payne Whitney Gym, the Crimson won two out of three matches to finish in third place...
...allegations to cause alarm. Even Senator John Warner (R.-Va.), the ranking Republican on the committee, admitted that the FBI investigation into Tower's personal life, which found that he indeed had had drinking problems, cast doubt on the nominee's fitness for such a high-level and sensitive post...
...Ahmat Shah, 44, a U.S.-trained engineer and hard- line fundamentalist. Muhammad Nabi Muhammadi, 68, a former member of Afghanistan's parliament, was named to fill the largely ceremonial office of President. The shura thus managed to bridge, for the moment, the principal issue dividing the rebel side: whether post-Soviet Afghanistan should be governed as an Islamic revolutionary state, on the Iranian model, or as one that is moderate and secular. Shah strongly advocates the fundamentalist approach, and Muhammadi heads one of the moderate factions...
...commander, leads an independent faction of the Islamic Party. A former village mullah dismissed as something of a bumpkin by his rivals, Khalis sports a henna-dyed beard and in 1987 took a 16-year-old bride. He vehemently opposes elections; in his view, the only constitution needed for post-Soviet Afghanistan is the Koran...