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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bearded, middle-aged man, a visitor to San Salvador, was on his way back to his lodgings when he realized it was 7 p.m., the hour of the strict, dusk-to-dawn curfew. Caught out of doors, he was liable to be shot on sight as a guerrilla. Frantically he began knocking at the houses on Calle Poniente, pleading for shelter. No doors were opened. Instead, a frightened resident telephoned the police to report a suspicious character making a commotion. As the bearded stranger approached the door of No. 2031, he died in a fusillade of police bullets...
When the game ended, curiosity seekers were treated to the sight of Rozelle trying to look happy as he handed over the Vince Lombardi Trophy to Archenemy Davis, while half-dressed Oakland players hauled out their cameras for snapshots of the historic moment. Standing silent on the side was Tom Flores, the Raiders' quiet coach, in Davis' shadow as always...
...After eight films, it is still not possible to say more than that there is no reason to think she cannot. Some of her movies have sunk out of sight, and one, Peter Fonda's Wanda Nevada, was never released. Director Malle guided her brilliantly through Pretty Baby, a film opulent of flesh but lacking the bone structure that might have made it great. She mugged cheerfully in a not very successful George Burns comedy, Just You and Me, Kid. (She says she wants to do comedy, but her mother, less sure, would prefer she stay with pretty pictures...
...defense that effectively closed the confident cagers out of the middle and forced them to take long outside shots. As the second half wore on, S.Conn. eventually closed the cagers down from the outside as well. With the Crimson scoring machine closed down and S.Conn. hitting everything in sight, Harvard had no chance to come back...
...Iran, the middle class. The Iranian revolution was revolution in the streets. Iran was in the streets -and that is where U.S. intelligence ought to have been looking. Had it done so, it would have seen itself as the new country's declared enemy, the only enemy in sight since the Shah had fled. No one in the mobs was keeping that secret. It would also have seen Khomeini for the demagogue he is, and not as some obscurantist mullah waiting benignly in the background. "We do not have the range or the flexibility to deal with a revolution...