Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government who point to his substantive successes. They cite his role in devising the Navy's bold interception of an Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro, his ability to overcome Pentagon qualms about launching air strikes against Libya and his role in getting Congress to renew military aid to contra forces in Nicaragua...
...disillusioned middle-aged men. The youths who fantasized becoming outlaws have done just that: Tom has a guilty secret that sent him wandering; Huck has a guilty secret that made him a recluse. On an afternoon in the Roaring Twenties they meet again and, after sputtering mistrust, struggle to renew a feeling of blood brotherhood in boundless adventure...
...remains firmly in control as President, but has allowed political parties to renew their activities. Indeed, last week the Punjab provincial government posted thousands of police near the P.P.P.'s motorcade and rally sites to make sure there would be no embarrassing incidents. The beefed-up security, however, did not prevent an apparently deranged retired army officer from bursting into a house where he thought Bhutto was staying, claiming that he wanted to marry her. "Just a simple legal ceremony will do," he told reporters. Bhutto hinted that the man might have been an assassin...
...otherwise--and presumably we elect them on the basis of their commitments and convictions. That our candidates have opinions--even strong and perhaps single-minded ones--is no criticism of their abilities, and far from threatening the electoral process and the composition of the board actually should strengthen and renew them...
...Peres, whose warnings of increased instability in the Middle East are taken seriously in the capital. On the one hand, Israeli officials say their country has been strengthened diplomatically by the oil glut. The declining petropower of the Arab countries has emboldened many Third World oil-using nations to renew contacts with Israel broken off during the 1974 oil crisis. But closer to home, some Israeli officials see increased potential for an attack by Syria, which has fallen on hard times partly because beleaguered Iran has cut off its subsidies to the Damascus regime...