Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rich Gedman, Boston's starting catcher for three years, is missing. He turned down a three-year offer of $2.65 million to become a free agent. He has been unable to find a better offer so far, but is ineligible to re-sign with the Red Sox until...
Gaddafi may now find it difficult to hold onto his northern slice of Chad. The expectation is that the retreating troops will make the arduous 500-mile desert trek north to a Libyan base in the Aozou Strip, a 50-mile-wide, mineral-rich area that has been in dispute since World War II. If Habre decides not to push his fight with Gaddafi into the Aozou Strip, Libyans may push Gaddafi to leave the rest of Chad to Habre. But predictions involving the erratic Gaddafi are always risky. Last week, for instance, he threatened to join the Warsaw Pact...
...Rolling Stones' fretful tune Gimme Shelter carries a special meaning for rock stars, Hollywood actors, even Wall Street tycoons. Like all of America's truly rich, they constantly look for loopholes in U.S. tax laws to shield their megabuck earnings from the Internal Revenue Service. But at times, as the headlines last week again confirmed, the Government declares those shelters to be illegal...
...living rooms and kitchens around Bethel, people are plotting ways to extricate themselves from their collective predicament. Former Teacher Harold Sparck sees the Bering Sea and its fisheries as a rich alternative source of income. Steve Constantino, 35, an attorney and president of the local Chamber of Commerce, is touting tourism and the lure of about 100 species of birds that spend their summers in the region. (He makes no mention of the score or so species of mosquitoes that share the turf.) Rosie Porter, the feisty editor and publisher of the weekly Tundra Drums and proprietor of the Porter...
Justiniani's political evolution is typical of how the Communist movement has spread through Philippine society. The daughter of a rich landowner on the island of Negros, a Communist stronghold, she joined the rebels in 1973, when she was 17. Deceptively gentle in appearance, Justiniani was at first stirred by the nationalist opposition to the Marcos government's pro-American policies. Now a rigorous Marxism sustains her. After spending years in the jungle, she claims, "I know the peasants and what they feel. I have witnessed their suffering. In some ways I have shared it. The army backs the landlords...