Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office and end the fighting, Franjieh huddled behind his loyal presidential guard at Baabda and refused to step down. But last week, as Franjieh hastily moved to a village city hall near the Phalangist stronghold of Juniyah on the seacoast 13 miles north of Beirut, a radio station supporting him announced "a temporary transfer of the seat of the presidency...
Operating on a shoestring budget out of storefront headquarters near Paris' Gare de Lyon railroad station, M.S.F. has sent medical teams flying off to the most remote corners of the world. Almost as soon as it gets word of a medical emergency, M.S.F. responds. A duty officer at the cramped headquarters scans his file cards and quickly puts together an appropriate team that usually consists of a doctor, a surgeon and an anaesthetist, as well as nurses or paramedics. By telephone or telegraph, the volunteers are found wherever they happen to be in the world; travel and expense money...
...unique form of psychological counseling, often against hysterical opposition. Scientology, in turn, has tended toward defensiveness bordering on paranoia, filing scores of libel suits on the slightest provocation. In February, the Church of Scientology sued Mayor Cazares, then threatened the Clearwater Sun, the St. Petersburg Times and radio station WDCL. "We are not a turn-the-other-cheek religion," Spokesman Arthur Maren told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith...
...Chicago (circ. 140,000) began life 24 years ago as Chicago Guide, a supermarket giveaway that listed radio programs of the city's classical music station, WFMT. In 1971, Publisher Raymond Nordstrand, 43, who came to Chicago from WFMT (he is still its station manager), decided to add articles and start selling the magazine to the public. Since then it has become one of the fattest books in the country. Today, a typical 230-page issue carries more than 100 pages of advertising. Last year Nordstrand dropped the "Guide" from Chicago's title. But on the inside, Chicago...
...vignettes is called "The Great Filling Station Holdup." Before Dylan satirized outlaw myths in "Joey," Buffett was already sick of them--he sings about being an unwilling accomplice in a robbery that netted "fifteen dollars and a can of STP/A big ole jar of cashew nuts and a Japanese T.V." Then, while he and his buddy are getting drunk on the money, a sheriff comes, He roughed us, then he cuffed us, And he took us off to jail. No picture on a poster, no reward, and no bail...