Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruthlessness and tenacity of the man who heads the largest of El Salvador's five major guerrilla organizations, the Popular Forces of Liberation (F.P.L.). In 1980, British Author Graham Greene was impressed by Carpio when they met in Panama. The novelist pleaded unsuccessfully with the insurgent to spare the life of Archibald Gardner Dunn, the South African Ambassador to El Salvador, whom the guerrillas had kidnaped. Said Greene of Carpio: "His eyes, they are hard...
...cheek to the training of counter-revolutionaries in Florida, direct U.S. efforts to tumble the government in Managua lend credibility to the Sandinistas' claim that the recent Nicaraguan military build-up is for defensive purposes. They also unnecessarily heighten tension in a region that has more than enough to spare...
...rest of us--the ones who have never cared much about the state of student government, much less its shape--must decide whether or not to approve the new form of government. We all should spare 10 seconds in the dining halls and vote in favor of the new council...
...course there was the Chicken Plus-legs, thighs, wings gizzards, livers, fries, cole slaw, spare ribs and hot sauce-all of it covered with the same film of grease and breadcrumbs that coated the furniture, the utensils, and before long, the employees. Typical conversation at the counter...
...Soviets, the U.S. had yet to deal with the problem that gave rise to the threat. The encircled Egyptian Third Army still faced starvation or surrender; either outcome would have humiliated or even destroyed Sadat and foreclosed hopes of peace. The Israelis, spoiling for revenge, showed no inclination to spare the army. Convinced that Israel had created the crisis by launching an attack well after the cease-fire so as to destroy the Third Army, Kissinger told Dinitz: "You will not be permitted to destroy this army. You are destroying the possibility for negotiations." To Cairo he proposed direct negotiations...