Word: richarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the greatest American novels of the past quarter-century, Erickson would put up Blonde on Blonde, Frank Sinatra's Where Are You, Little Richard's Grooviest Seventeen Original Hits, Springsteen's The River and Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. And anyone who's scandalized by such an idea . . . well, they just haven't been listening. Try this simple test at home. Ask what made more sense to your life: any novel by V.S. Naipaul or any record by Bob Dylan. Any voters for Naipaul probably wouldn't have read this...
...President announced a $65 million package of emergency military aid to Colombia, more than 2 1/2 times the $25 million the nation had been scheduled to receive. At the same time, the State Department warned that "Americans traveling to Colombia could expose themselves to extraordinary personal danger." Spokesman Richard Boucher said that State "strongly urges Americans to avoid visiting Medellin, headquarters of the drug traffickers' cartel...
Last week's attack was apparently the latest in a prolonged war between the Kenyan government and heavily armed bands of poachers set on pursuing the illegal trade in ivory, rhinoceros horns and leopard and lion skins. Richard Leakey, the noted paleoanthropologist who directs Kenya's wildlife service, said the killers would probably turn out to be poachers from neighboring Somaliland. These nomads are paid almost nothing for the hacked-off trophies, which are later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars in Asian and Middle Eastern markets...
Here is one of them, Richard Hillary, remembering his first kill: "We ran into them at 18,000 ft., 20 yellow-nosed Messerschmitt 109s, about 500 ft. above us . . . Brian Carbury, who was leading the section . . . let go a burst of fire at the leading plane. ((I)) saw the pilot put his machine into a half roll and knew that he was mine. Automatically, I kicked the rudder to the left to get him at right angles, turned the gun-button to FIRE and let go in a 4- sec. burst . . . He seemed to hang motionless; then...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Denise Worrell...