Word: references
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tirade was the latest shock in what some White House aides bluntly refer to in private as "the Kirkpatrick problem." Worse, the speech came only days after she and Secretary of State Alexander Haig deeply embarrassed the Administration by missing signals on how the U.S. should vote on a Security Council resolution concerning a Falklands ceasefire. The two events served to highlight the apparent inability of Reagan's foreign policy team to speak with a single, coherent voice. But they also renewed speculation that Kirkpatrick, who has had a long-running feud with Haig, might be removed from...
...purses stuffed with an assortment of bills. It took clerks an hour to count the currency, which totaled $100,000. A Chase banker recalled the women's saying that the money came from street sales of flowers by members of Moon's Unification Church. The Moonies, who refer to their leader as "Father," and who regard him as a manifestation of God, were zealous collectors of funds, and deposits to his Chase accounts were frequent-perhaps too frequent. In a New York City federal court last week, a jury of ten women and two men decided, after four...
...moonscape that only a nomad could love. What he wanted was the northwestern 20% of the territory, which contained the main towns of El Aaiun and Smara as well as the phosphate mines at Bu Craa. Hassan decided to protect his claim to this area, which he began to refer to as the "useful Sahara," by literally building a wall around...
...refer to the Crimson article of May 13th, in which Mr. Barak Goodman states that "a bruising shell from Yale took a narrow victory from the heavies" at the 1981 EARC sprints. How is this possible? Last year's sprints fell in the middle of exams, and thus Harvard did not on Lake Quinsigamond last year. Geoffrey S. Knauth...
...visual medium--more so than the stage on which I Ought to be in Pictures was originally performed: he seems to put his own work on a secondary level to the screenwriter's. This is not a Herbert Ross film: the opening credits and the advertisements, in fact, refer to it as "Neil Simon's I Ought to be in Pictures...