Word: spans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic round table, at January's Dartmouth College free-for-all: "The debates have become the crucible we hoped for." Key themes of the campaign have emerged from the six subsequent national TV debates-two more on PBS, plus two on Cable News Network, one on the C-Span cable network, and the one in New York on CBS. Apart from their direct impact on viewers, debates are excerpted on TV news and help set the agenda for the press. When Hart asked Mondale in an Iowa debate to cite one issue on winch he had differed with labor...
...violent crimes, and on the average each had five felony counts on his record. The criminals included 24 accused or convicted murderers, 39 rapists, 13 kidnapers and 272 robbers. Said Marshals Director Stanley Morris of FIST: "I cannot think of any more successful operation in such a time span...
...million in military funds for the Central American nation, disheartening news came of a daring guerrilla offensive. On two year-end raids, leftist insurgents not only captured and held El Salvador's fourth-largest military base for some eight hours but blew up the Cuscatlan suspension bridge, a span that had come to symbolize 20th century progress for Salvadorans...
...guerrillas struck again at the meagerly defended Cuscatlán Bridge, a crossing 50 miles east of the capital on the Pan American Highway that many considered to be indestructible. Before government forces responded to the attack, the rebels managed to plant plastic explosives on the quarter-mile span. The blast snapped the suspension cables and sent twisted sections of roadway plummeting into the Lempa River. Until the bridge can be repaired, cotton, sugar and coffee harvests from the eastern departments will have to be transported across the top of a near...
Notably absent on this occasion was the kind of flamboyant improvisational rhetoric that Castro introduced to the world a quarter-century ago. The graying revolutionary jefe read from a prepared text for a mere 90 minutes-a brief span compared with the five-and six-hour Castro stemwinders of the past. In a detailed litany of the accomplishments of his Communist regime, Castro described Cuba's socialist state as "the most advanced political and social system known in the history of mankind...