Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mother and two brothers were killed by Amin's soldiers during a barracks purge in 1974. Kuli escaped to Kenya and joined a dissident group. Eventually he re-entered Uganda and began to take part in sabotage activities; he helped blow up the fuel depot in Kampala. Says Kuli: "I cannot say to the day when Amin will go, but it will be within six months. I am perfectly willing to die. I have nothing to live for but to kill Amin." This time, many others appear to share the view that Big Daddy's swaggering days...
...past few weeks, California Governor Jerry Brown has phoned five members of TIME'S Board of Economists. Why, he asked, did they oppose his call for a constitutional convention to devise an amendment that would force Congress to balance the budget? Recalls one of the economists: "When you say to him, 'Look, it just doesn't make a damn bit of sense,' his comeback is, 'Yes, but I want some amendment in the Constitution that reflects fiscal responsibility.' " The California legislature, by a vote of 12 to 8 in its ways and means committee...
...automatic timers. In Moscow, Nehemiah will have to contend with the world's best under extraordinary pressure. He thinks he'll be ready: "The only thing that will hurt me will be an injury." Very much his own man at 19, Nehemiah is frank enough to say that he likes the adulation and attention that have distracted so many young athletes on the way to the Olympics. Says the finest hurdler in the world: "I'm going to take advantage of it while I have it, because it's going to hurt the day it leaves...
...boat living is that, theoretically at least, you don't need to dock anywhere except to take on fuel and supplies. Scanning the sunset at the helm of his schooner, Atlantas, in Los Angeles Harbor, Teacher Ron Remsburg muses: "When you look at that compass, you can say to yourself: I can go any direction in the world that I want to go." Or stay at home, listening to the slapping halyards, creaking hull, bird cries and the whisper of the evening tide...
Some scholars think that this kind of writing may be a reflection, rather than a cause, of the preoccupation with disaster. Roy Peter Clark, an English professor at Auburn University, links the spread of millenarian fever with the approaching end of a true millenium-the year 2000. Says he: "We must prepare ourselves for the mass psychological hysteria, the conscious or unconscious sense of terror that may build to a climax." Others, like Psychoanalyst Eric Fromm, say that love of calamity shows a sense of alienation and powerlessness that seeks release through images of destruction...