Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falwell era at PTL began, the latest episode of the Oral Roberts story neared its conclusion. It was on Bakker's show that Roberts said he needed only $1.3 million to reach his death-preventing money goal by the end of March. That apparently inspired a gift for precisely that amount last week from Collins, owner of two Florida dog-racing tracks with $50 million last year in gambling proceeds. Evangelicals consider gambling a sin, and the racetrack connection upset some old-time Roberts supporters...
...humanitarian" aid (food, clothing, medicine) for the contras. The State Department, which administered the account, has never been able to satisfy Congress on what happened to the money. One reason, officials told TIME, is that sizable chunks were used for bribes to Honduran military officials to let the supplies reach the contras...
...millions of dollars' worth of weapons. The plan was to sell them -- at wildly inflated prices -- to the CIA for delivery to the contras after the U.S. resumed open, legal military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. Buy, said the Hondurans, or we will not let supplies of any kind reach the contras. At that point, the supply operation was shifted to Ilopango. There it remained until a mini-coup in the Honduran armed forces last November threw out officials who were accused of fiscal misbehavior...
...intense portraits of ordinary lives: that of a reactionary but troubled landowner (The Conservationist), for example, or of a white housewife caught up in the melee of a successful black revolution (July's People). A Sport of Nature is no less detailed and gripping than its predecessors, but its reach is more ambitious: a panoramic view not only of what has already taken place in South Africa but of what the future, inevitably or at least imaginatively, will become...
...taught man who dropped out of school in the ninth grade, Wilson, 41, announced ambitions for a cycle of ten plays meant to reveal black life in each decade of this century. Ma Rainey depicted the self- imposed racial isolation of a 1920s blues singer. His second play to reach Broadway, Fences, which opened last week, portrays the frustration of a former Negro-leagues baseball player in the industrial North of the 1950s, a boom time that is passing this man by. Too old to make the move to the majors, too much a country boy to seek an education...