Word: seale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hussein's crackdown caught Palestinian leaders unawares. Without warning, squads of the blue-uniformed Central Security Force spread through Amman shutting down Fatah offices, including the house in the Al Nuzha district that the Tunis-based Arafat used during visits. Jordanian agents seized Fatah documents and applied a seal of red wax to office doors. Arafat's top aide, Khalil Wazir, better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Jihad, was told to leave the country within 48 hours when he arrived at his office in the Jebel Amman district. Before embarking on a 450-mile auto journey across...
There will, of course, be all those delicious small perks that go with power: fresh flowers, current color photographs on the walls, embossed memo pads, napkins, playing cards, cigarette packages and matches with the presidential seal and inscriptions like "Aboard Air Force One." The new plane will be hardened against electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear explosion. When it lands at a distant airport, it can become a complete communications hub for the presidential party...
...Benadryl (both made by Warner-Lambert). Nearly all over-the-counter drugs are two-piece capsules, although the single- piece model, used for some vitamins, is perhaps safer. If anyone were to try ; to pierce a single-piece shell, it would probably leak and be very difficult to seal again. In tampering with two-piece capsules, a criminal might be able to separate the two parts, contaminate the medication and later put the pieces back together. So far, though, single-piece capsules can hold only liquid drugs. Reason: the medication cannot pass through the special machinery used to make single...
...immigrants come to this University anyway, some becoming part of its most stifling traditions, others resisting them but still receiving the Harvard seal of assimilation on their resume. Most are probably less cynical than my friend, and more similar to my grandparents, viewing their educational triumph as a culmination rather than an aberration. Getting into Harvard means acceptance. But often that assimilation can mean changing the immigrant heritage without changing the institution...
...sharply about 40 miles from Chernobyl, extensive decontamination measures will be needed to make the immediate vicinity livable. He said the shattered reactor core, which is being entombed in concrete, remains hot beneath the 5,000-ton pile of sand, lead pellets and boron that helicopters have dumped to seal in radiation. Said Velikhov: "I would not like to create the illusion that all our problems are over, but I think that now we do not need to expect any unpleasant surprises...