Word: roundups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...details of the botched coup emerge, it seems clear that the rebel force had potential that Washington underestimated. Noriega's subsequent roundup of plotters showed that the effort reached deep into the dictator's circle. Among the 37 arrested were three of the general's closest and most trusted associates: Colonel Guillermo Wong, head of military intelligence, Colonel Julio Ow Young, who oversees personnel for the dreaded Doberman militias that have repeatedly been turned on opposition rallies, and Lieut. Colonel Armando Palacios Gondola, head of an organization that supervised joint military operations with U.S. troops...
...epic logistical headache and a historic huckster's delight (kitschy western "art" and $3,000 gold-plated Winchester rifles for sale). To allow 2,400 people (including a handful of real cowboys), 200 wagons and 2,800 cattle to plod 50 miles and six days from Roundup to Billings, U.S. Highway 87 had to be closed for two days. Saturday mail service to 15,000 Billings residents was canceled in anticipation of the drive's arrival, which produced something unknown in days of yore -- gridlock. One human death (a 68-year-old spectator suffered a heart attack) occurred during...
With Orwellian thoroughness, the hard-liners revise history to justify a harsh roundup of "counterrevolutionary hooligans" and make heroes of the army. -- Gorbachev receives a tumultuous welcome in West Germany...
...Hockey Roundup: An assortment of high-profile Harvard administrators were seen in strange terrain during spring break. The Cambridge denizens--including Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57--traveled to Minnesota for the Harvard hockey team's appearance in the NCAA Final Four and were pleasantly surprised to see Harvard emerge victorious. The deans even flew back to Boston on the same early-morning plane as the hockey players...
When spring roundup comes, few ranchers expect to find every head of cattle at once. Some are bound to stray; others might have fallen to illness or predators. But when Bart and Lilly O'Toole gathered in their stock from winter grazing in Nevada's Reese River Valley, they were dismayed to find 20 cows missing from a herd of 200. When none turned up on neighbors' lands or in Nevada stockyards, the O'Tooles knew that 10% of their herd had been rustled. Says Lilly O'Toole, 43: "I'm sure they're slaughtered and made into hamburger...