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Coudari and Sontag appeared shaken when a swarm of photographers and television crews stampeded into a chandeliered room in the Foreign Ministry during the ceremonies in which they were turned over to French diplomats. The crush sent security men scurrying to save valuable vases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Hostages Return From Lebanon | 11/12/1986 | See Source »

...carried the ball only rarely for the Broncos, when Little was hurt, and even then he was just a workmanlike runner. Most of his years were spent on the Broncos' special teams, where he, along with ten other players, would charge, kamikaze-like, down the field to swarm over an opposing ballcarrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene in Connecticut: Game Time | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

These stalwarts are as diverse as they are different from the college students who swarm around the counter from 12 to 3 a.m. and the laborers who casually sip coffee on swivel stools...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: A Night in Cambridge, A Day in The Tasty | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

Other grievances swarm up from the past. Phillip recalls how his father prevented both daughters from marrying, scaring off suitors or using courtroom wiles to turn the impressionable girls into witnesses against their gentlemen friends. The third child, Georgie, was ostensibly so traumatized by family life that he volunteered for service in World War II with the sole intent of being killed, at which he succeeded. The old man also managed to put an end to Phillip's courtship of a "girl I was in love with in Chattanooga (and there has never been another)." As these remembrances and confessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Civil War in the Upper South a Summons to Memphis | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...make sure that all means -- river, rail and air transport -- are made available so that aid reaches the needy." Yet as long as both sides continued their military operations, relief efforts seemed certain to remain suspended. In the meantime, roving gangs of bandits, armed tribesmen and Ugandan army deserters swarm through the rebel-held area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan Stranded Amid the Gunfire | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

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