Word: returned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Estelle Sutherland has been at the Coop almost as long as Knox. She spent most of 1984 in retirement. But, when the Coop opened its Medical Center branch in 1985, Sutherland says she was asked to return to work--for "a few days." "I ended up staying," she says, "and I have already been there for two years." Sutherland says she does not plan to retire in the near future...
...Other elements of a peace plan are already in place, ready to go into effect if a timetable for withdrawal can be agreed upon. The settlement, worked out at United Nations talks in Geneva, would include the return home of some 3 million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan and Iran and the establishment of a provisional government to supervise elections...
Najibullah has tried to deny the rebels new recruits by offering refugees land and jobs if they will return to their farms and villages. But barely 80,000 have taken him up on the offer, and no more than 10,000 rebels have given up the insurgency. Moreover, animosity lingers between some of the returned rebels and government forces. One day last week the morning calm in Kabul was shattered by bursts of machine-gun fire. It seems a tribal leader, a former rebel who is now a general in the Afghan army, took exception when security troops refused...
...Harvard women's basketball team was 5-0. The University of Hartford, a woeful 0-4, had been beaten easily by teams like Boston College--which the Crimson beat earlier in the season--and perenially weak Columbia. Harvard was supposed to make a quick trip down to Connecticut and return a few hours later with the win in hand...
...childish lunatic tormented by his mother. In a conversation about how to write an exciting murder mystery, Owen misinterprets Larry's advice and decides that Larry wants to swap murder targets with him. He plots to get rid of Margaret, convinced that Donner will bump off his Momma in return...