Word: returned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solid core of experienced seniors and a talented bunch of newcomers, Harvard will not be short on talent. The Crimson has lost only three players from last year's squad to graduation and will return its top three scorers...
...Supreme Court ruling on Oct. 2 allowing political parties to participate fully in the races. The Supreme Court decision followed the mysterious death of Zia in an airplane explosion in August, eleven years after he seized power. The elections will give Bhutto the long-awaited opportunity to return her party to the ruling position it held from 1971 until 1977, when Zia overthrew her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in a coup. Zia subsequently permitted Bhutto's execution to take place...
Most are expected to abandon the fight if U.S. funding is not renewed. Civilian leader Alfredo Cesar hopes to return to Nicaragua by early next year, some say to run as the opposition candidate in the 1990 presidential elections. But Cesar is not well known within Nicaragua, and the Sandinistas, warns one diplomat, may dismiss his effort as "a blinding irrelevance...
Though Honduran officials insist that all the contras must leave their country, they expect that the U.S., reluctant to host the rebels, will ask Honduras to accept some as refugees in return for American aid. Other rebels, especially the field commanders, will probably be allowed to settle in the U.S. The more hardened foot soldiers may dig in for the long haul. Some observers in Tegucigalpa estimate that at least 2,000 rebels with scores to settle and long experience in guerrilla warfare intend to fight...
...Robertson proved there was an unassuaged moral yearning that Reagan had stimulated without quite satisfying. Robertson's agenda of prayer in school, harsh penalties for drug dealers, a return to patriotism, opposition to abortion and a full frontal attack on liberalism set the model for Bush's campaign in the fall. Robertson issued the marching orders in his speech at the New Orleans convention: "Criminals are turned loose and the innocent are made victims . . . I submit to you tonight that Michael Dukakis is the most liberal candidate ever put forward for the presidency by any major party in American history...