Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandinista military draft and arrive penniless in Honduras. Fundamentally, though, Honduras has cast its lot with the U.S. One of its most insistent demands is for a stronger U.S. guarantee of its security than that provided by a 1954 treaty. As long as American troops are on its soil, Honduras seems safe. Its fear is that the Americans will leave--and the next tanks clanking north from the border will be driven by real rather than fake Sandinistas...
...divided like a sweet drink into little sips, when there is no just before midnight, midnight or just after midnight, when the night is round in some places, flat in some places and in some places like a deep hole, blue at the edge, black inside, the night soil men come...
...ranch and its surroundings but found no sign of Camarena and Zavala. But that evening, a peasant youth discovered the two plastic bags about ten yards from a highway that runs past the Bravo ranch. The corpses had apparently been dumped there after the agents left the ranch. The soil found on the bags was not common to the immediate area. Investigators concluded that the bodies had been buried, disinterred and brought to the ranch so they could be found there...
...working with shovels at the bottom of a metal-and-fiber-glass-filled hole about ten feet deep. This is the impact point where the AC-130 crashed to earth. To facilitate the search, the team first sliced the ground open with hunting knives and then cut away the soil an inch at a time. Now the men pass shovelfuls of dirt to Laotian soldiers waiting with sifters, who shake the dirt back and forth. The Americans wrap a winch line around a nearby tree to help pull a piece of rusted metal out of the hard-packed soil...
Opponents of arms-control talks have long justified their skepticism by citing Moscow's long-standing refusal to allow arms inspectors on Soviet soil. Last week the Soviets took a small step toward spiking that criticism. At a ceremony in Vienna, the U.S.S.R. signed an agreement that for the first time allows the U.N.-sponsored International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect carefully selected parts of Moscow's civilian nuclear industry. Said Soviet Diplomat Vladimir Petrovsky at the signing: "On the eve of U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva, we feel it is necessary to create a favorable atmosphere...