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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson Captain Collins was a sight for sore eyes after the game. His face was covered by mud and pieces of grass, and his uniform was completely soaked through. He had played his second consecutive out-standing game, 20 times bringing down an enemy ballcarrier. Right now, though, he looked extremely uncomfortable...
Kentucky, the sight of the biggest upset in the '84 Senate election, offered no surprise this time around. Incumbent Democrat Wendell H. Ford easily defeated his Republican opponent Jackson M. Andrews...
...including a Soviet crew of five. It refueled in Lusaka, then flew across Zimbabwe and headed south toward the Mozambique capital of Maputo. Violent thunderstorms were hitting the area, and visibility was poor. Near the South African town of Komatipoort, the Soviet pilot announced he had Maputo airport in sight and descended. The Maputo airport was actually 45 miles away; the pilot may have mistaken the lights of Komatipoort for it. Moments later, about 600 ft. inside South Africa, the plane hit treetops and cartwheeled down a rainswept hillside. Among those killed, in addition to Machel, were Transport Minister Alcantara...
...fall of 1800, and since President John Adams was not certain he wanted to live there, Marshall moved in upstairs for a few weeks. Abigail Adams made immediate history when she did arrive. She hung out the wash in the East Room so critics would not ridicule the sight of the President's underdrawers flapping in the breeze...
...beings through the ages, few have cast darker shadows or proved more formidable than the one that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The current AIDS death toll of 15,000 in the U.S. seems small compared with some of the scourges of old. But no cure or vaccine is in sight, and the figure is expected to rise to nearly 180,000 in five years. By that time, predicts U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, 145,000 Americans with AIDS will need health and other services costing between $8 billion and $16 billion annually...