Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, the paramilitary pressure being brought to bear on Nicaragua seems to be working. The Sandinista leaders have recently shown a willingness to negotiate. Moreover, it is a sign to friend and foe alike that the U.S. is prepared to draw the line against the spread of Marxist-Leninist revolution. But as usual, covert action carries heavy risks. For one, the operation could prove unsuccessful, leaving a sediment of anti-American feelings. For another, the domestic debate over covert action is costing Reagan valuable political capital. The question now is whether the U.S. can sustain its covert operation long enough...
...Spread over 240 acres across the Schuylkill River from downtown Philadelphia, and isolated from its lower-middle class, predominantly Black neighbors, the single campus is home for all of Penn's graduate and undergraduate schools. The sheer size of the school both physically and in enrollment tends to breed diversity and differences sometimes too much according to some students...
With students from all four undergraduate schools and all four classes living together, but spread among the different types of residence, there is the contrasting sense of a large community split into many smaller isolated groups, especially among minorities. "You can live here a year and never meet anyone from the floor above," complains one Superblock resident, although most students will quickly defend the openness and friendly atmosphere...
Though word of the story had spread for several days, the blood-red banner headline was startling. Proclaimed West Germany's raffish picture magazine Stern: HITLER'S DIARIES DISCOVERED. To trumpet its acquisition of 62 volumes dated from 1932 to 1945, the entire span of Hitler's Third Reich, Stern (circ. 1.87 million) summoned more than 200 print and television reporters from around the world to its art deco headquarters in Hamburg. There, at a self-congratulatory three-hour press conference, Editor in Chief Peter Koch announced: "I am 100% convinced that Hitler wrote every single word...
...dark when he awakened. Her hair was spread over his shoulder in a wave... She turned to him... "I believe in love," she said. Her face hung over...