Word: return
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Discovery is to return home from its four-day, one-hour, 65-orbit flight today, landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California...
...arrested at least eleven times for petty crimes and hospitalized as a mental patient seven times. Once he had smashed a chalice during a service at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Twice in the past six months, city psychiatrists had examined him and failed to discover any reason not to return him to the streets...
...ultimately agreed to an exchange that is remarkably free of constraints: the visiting students have no chaperones; they live in ordinary dorms with their American peers, earn transferable grades and select courses on their own. In past cultural exchanges, authorities in Moscow wanted the U.S. Government to guarantee the return of visiting Soviet citizens (a request that was routinely denied). "There was none of that talk in these negotiations," says Ray Benson, a Middlebury professor and former embassy attache in Moscow, who headed the negotiations. Tuition, room and board, and a monthly living allowance of $150 are paid...
...tried to fire General Manuel Noriega and found himself ousted instead. Next month Chileans will have an opportunity to vote in a national plebiscite for or against a continuation of the 15-year-old authoritarian regime of General Augusto Pinochet. A no vote could mark the beginning of a return to political democracy for Chile, but many Chileans fear that it would not be honored by General Pinochet or other senior military officials...
...apparently backed the zoning package that let construction begin in return for a provision requiring MIT's contractor, Forest City Development, to build 400 new apartments, 150 of them subsidized...