Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participant in the talks was Sam Nujoma, president of the insurgent, Marxist-oriented South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), which the U.N. has recognized as "the authentic representative of the Namibian people." Nujoma was ready to sign a supervised cease-fire agreement that would end fighting between 7,000 to 8,000 SWAPO rebels and 20,000 South African troops in Namibia by March 31. U.N.-supervised elections, to be held seven months later, would lead to eventual independence. Despite the U.N.'s endorsement of SWAPO, he said that his organization would accept "equal status...
...DIED. Sam Levene, 75, the original Nathan Detroit in the 1950 Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, who specialized in playing irascible but appealing characters in more than 100 other plays and films; of a heart attack; in New York City...
...carelessness. Much of it is composed of a series of introductions Greene wrote for an English edition of his works, and the stitching between these set pieces and interpolated transitions is often loose. Little matter. The story is fascinating, whatever Greene says, and spiced with ir resistible anecdotes. Producer Sam Zimbalist once asked Greene to revise the end of a script for a remake of Ben-Hur: "You see, we find a kind of anticlimax after the Crucifixion." There was the tune the author was sued for libel by Shirley Temple; Greene recalls, "I had suggested that...
Despite their ideological differences, members of the Marxist-Leninist Party have provided the week-long string of rallies with a touch of the dramatic as they perform and re-perform a morality play showing Mean Ole Uncle Sam deceiving the ignorant army recruit with the blather-headed aid of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan...
...then there was the Carter family. Sister Ruth, who hobnobbed with Billy Graham and his ilk, and, like her brother, was a born-again Christian. And of course, brother Billy, the greatest filial embarrassment to hit the White House since Sam Houston Johnson moved into the White House so Lyndon could keep an eye on him. Billy, who declared his dislike for Blacks; Billy, who loaned his name to a (bad) brand of beer; Billy, who picked up a stack of money from Col. Khadafy and the Libyan gang. Billy, a loud, obnoxious, good ol' boy who pissed on airport...