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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suddenness of the Tanzanian withdrawal has led to speculation that Nyerere was trying to set the stage for the return to power of his old friend Obote. No sooner had Nyerere announced that his men were leaving than Obote proclaimed that he would return to Uganda to run for re-election as soon as the date of the vote was announced. Said Obote: "The only issue in the election is whether you are pro-or anti-Tanzanian." Obote's threat merely adds to Uganda's uncertain future. Most Western diplomats believe that instability will last until the country...
...sooner had Brown arrived last March than he jumped into the annual recruiting scramble. Although he started late, he managed to lure a pair of speedy backcourt men to put zip into the attack: Guards Rod Foster and Mike Holton. The two settled into the lineup slightly after midseason and played more like seniors than freshmen. The team began to jell. Brown scrapped the slick-passing offense he had favored at Denver and returned to Wooden's more traditional style. Sophomore Mike Sanders, a comparatively small 6 ft. 6 in., was switched from forward to center...
...what goes wrong? As it sadly turns out, Coal Miner's Daughter is not entirely immune to the tired conventions of backstage movie melodramas. No sooner does Lynn start to hit it big than the film ineluctably slips into the usual Star Is Born cliches. Suddenly, and with only the slightest motivation, the protagonist is afflicted by marital conflict, pill addiction, desperate loneliness and a nervous collapse. True, these tragedies happened in life, but in the movie they seem phony: Lynn's later personal traumas are not so much dramatized as displayed like flash cards for predictable audience...
Zurier said he believes HDNS is trying to prolong the legal proceedings and added that Smith's attitude is that "sooner or later these damned kids will give...
...going to have to make up $900,000, the sooner we know about it the better," Brown said...