Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Ranger 3, Philadelphia...
That ain't just a figment of fancy from the John Travolta movie. All across the country, from the canyons of Manhattan to the chic watering holes of Beverly Hills and, of course, the salons of the Southwest, it is Lone Ranger and Tonto time. City dudes are sporting wide-brimmed cowpoke sombreros (often with Indian accents of feathers and turquoise-inlaid headbands), yoke shirts, off-the-range Levi's, brass- or gold-buckled belts and high-steppin' boots of alligator or snakeskin. Some real rootin' tooters tote leather holsters (empty) and cartridge belts. The lady...
French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's "Lone Ranger" diplomacy [June 2] with Moscow is just another case of dissatisfaction with the Carter Administration. Moscow would love to divide the West on today's problems, and if the Soviets are successful, it will be because Western Europe is probably tired of playing What's My Line?with Washington...
Giscard got scant credit at home for what the Paris daily Le Monde dubbed an act of "Lone Ranger" diplomacy. In a scathing editorial, the paper observed: "Brezhnev got what he wanted. The Soviet press will present [Giscard's] presence in Warsaw as meaning the end of the quarantine in which the Kremlin's leadership has been locked for five months since the rape of Afghanistan." The left-wing Le Matin de Paris suggested that Giscard could be "the first Western leader to consent to a slow process of Finlandization in Western Europe." In a Page One banner...
...gathering places. Wherever he went, thousands of chanting women-who, like Doe, belong to Liberia's long oppressed country people -romped and shouted in the streets. At his first foreign press conference last week, Doe strode into a ballroom at the executive mansion wearing a wide-brimmed army ranger hat, freshly pressed fatigues and combat boots. He carried a ceremonial sword under his arm and a .357 Magnum revolver on his hip. Then, in a halting voice, Doe read a prepared statement in which he repeated his earlier charges of corruption against the former regime. "When things begin...