Word: primed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among those indicted were a Massachsuetts man and Everette Bannister, a close associate of Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling. Bannister was accused of taking money from the cartel to allow traffickers to use the island nation off Florida's shores as a way station for $1 billion in drug imports...
...recent presidential election was a prime example of how this attitude can manifest itself. Charges of Dukakis' lack of patriotism were "nasty." And the racist use of Willie Horton certainly "divided America...
...Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, the author got back to Talbot's story in Close Quarters (1987). Fire Down Below completes Talbot's memoirs and provides a glimpse of the older man who wrote them. He has evidently done well for himself: "Only the other day the Prime Minister himself said, 'Talbot, you're becoming a deuced bore about that voyage of yours...
...leader of the Shi'ite fundamentalist group Hizballah whose history of terrorism is grislier than the record of Palestinian renegade Abu Nidal. Mughniyah's villainy, U.S. officials say, runs from bombings, like the suicide attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, to hijackings. He is a prime suspect in the U.S. for his alleged role in the 1985 skyjacking of TWA Flight 847 in which a Navy diver was murdered. And he has made a specialty of kidnaping: U.S. officials believe that Mughniyah, under the cloak of cover names like Islamic Jihad and the Revolutionary Justice Organization...
...surge of new arrivals began in 1982, propelled by a debt-plagued Irish economy in which unemployment soared to almost 19% last year, sometimes reaching twice that for young people under 25. Even Ireland's Prime Minister Charles Haughey seemed to encourage the exodus...