Word: states
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overthrow the Sandinistas; the contras were a means to that all-or- nothing end. The Bush Administration, by contrast, is seeking a political settlement that would entail some sort of power sharing between the Sandinistas and their opponents. During consultations on Cambodia in Brunei last week, Secretary of State James Baker made it clear that the U.S. is more willing than it was a year ago to accept the current Vietnamese-backed leaders in Phnom Penh as part of a future coalition -- and more committed than before to preventing any return by the genocidal Khmer Rouge...
...reveals that he is a poetic observer of the earth's surface as well as its depths, ever alert to the sounds of silence -- a cricket, a katydid, a car passing in the distance, the hum of a freezer. Crisp winter walks during his college days at Utah State made him feel like "the president of snow...
...judge allows the buildings to be sold at auction, Budd said, the bulk of the proceeds will be divided among federal, state and local law enforcement agencies...
Budd, who was appointed to replace Frank McNamara as the chief federal prosecutor in Massachusetts this year, said he would focus on the inner city but also bring forfeiture cases around the state. As an example, he cited the confiscation last month of $4 million dollars worth of real estate owned by an alleged drug dealer in Lowell...
...Please don't take this initiative with the inner city to mean that we plan to abandon other areas of the state," he said. "We're by no means picking on a section of the city or taking advantage of poor people and minorities...