Word: retreating
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...clan finally fetch up in Australia, where they live on scraps of bitter memory and paranoid imaginings of a comparably tumultuous future. Although they appear to be part of the vast middle-class world in their adopted country, there is an untouchable inwardness in their spirits, and eventually they retreat into armed-survivalist hysteria...
...year ago, some 15,000 contras operated across almost a third of Nicaragua, their campaign underwritten by U.S. aid. Today, crippled in part by Congress's < fickle approach to supplying aid, only some 4,000 remain in Nicaragua; the rest have been forced by a vigorous Sandinista counteroffensive to retreat across the border. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra has said that the contras have "totally lost the initiative." For once, the American military seems to agree with the Sandinistas. Admits General John Galvin, commander of the U.S. Southern Command: "They need training, they need advice in terms of strategy...
Hardly had the Camp David accords been signed on Sept. 17, 1978, when the participants began to argue about what they had agreed to during the 13 days they had spent together at the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. On Sept. 18, President Jimmy Carter told Congress that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin had agreed to a freeze on the building of new Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip until an autonomy agreement for those territories had been negotiated--a process that could take several years. For his part, Begin insisted that...
...Wade Morrison worked as a pharmacist at a drugstore in Rural Retreat, Va. He fell in love with the daughter of the store's proprietor, Charles Pepper, who was a physician. When the doctor discovered the romance, he put a halt to it. Morrison then fled to Waco, Texas, where he opened his own drugstore. It was there that Charles Alderton, who worked for Morrison, invented a tasty soft drink made from 23 flavors. Morrison, apparently still hoping to curry favor with his beloved's father, named the new pop Dr Pepper. It become one of the most popular thirst...
...time-frame established by the rules and traditions of the college should be told to seek employment elsewhere. It is time for the Harvard faculty, the "untouchables", to respond. As a matter of fact, it is their obligation to do so. The students should not be bullied into a retreat that will literally consign the entire student body to unnecessary days of drudgery. Steven Maddox...