Word: salem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thermil Salem is a soldier who worked as a driver for a group of antigang policemen who are feared for their brutality. Secretly, Salem supported President Aristide. "My teeth cannot speak about those days," he says. He served two jail terms. Living outside Port-au-Prince in a brick hut that also serves as a voodoo temple, he never goes out now. "They have spies all around," he says...
...siege and shelling. The conflict between tribal-based North Yemen and communist South Yemen was the first since the two states merged four years ago, and had quashed popular hopes that a series of wars and skirmishes since the 1960s would ever cease. Even now, the separatist leader, Ali Salem al-Beidh, and five of his aides haven't admitted defeat, despite reports that they fled by boat last night to neighboring Oman.parpar
That, of course, is not to say that Giardi was not talented. He came in gifted--a star high school quarterback out of Salem, M.A., and a baseball recruit at the University of North Carolina--and stayed gifted...
Classes, aside from the notorious ones onwitchcraft and ouija boards, focus on topics like"The Salem Witchcraze" and "Alchemy, Astrology andMagic: The Occult Sciences,"--a class whoseresources were diminished by the mysterious thefta few years ago from Widener Library of severalvaluable books on alchemy...
...collapse of Soviet patronage in South Yemen spurred a merger in May 1990. But the leader of the North, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the leader of the South, Vice President Ali Salem al-Beidh, bickered incessantly. They refused to completely merge their armies or their economies, and never built up any trust. "The power plays got to a point of no return," says Judith Kipper, guest scholar at the Brookings Institution...