Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting, Panamanian opposition leaders asked U.S. embassy officers to spell out their plans for dealing with Noriega. A U.S. official reiterated Washington's familiar posture: Noriega must leave Panama, with no guarantees that he will not be extradited to the U.S. from a third country. "Do you mean to tell us that the U.S. set off on this venture without considering the possibility that it wouldn't work right away?" demanded a Panamanian. "Are you saying there is no Plan B?" An uneasy silence followed...
...film is a major gamble. Its cost is rumored to be $38 million or more, which has inspired ominous comparisons with Howard the Duck, a notorious $35 million quacker made by Universal. Says a Hollywood insider: "I've seen a few minutes of Roger Rabbit and can tell you for sure that it's no Howard the Duck. It's unique and should be very successful. But when you're out that kind of money, it's hard to sleep at night...
Initially, the Israelis refused to either confirm or deny an Israeli connection to al-Wazir's assassination. "Do not ask me, and I'll not have to tell you lies," a high-ranking Israeli intelligence official said. But according to TIME's Middle East correspondents, the entire operation was carried out by a commando unit of 30 members of the Israeli Defense Forces. After crossing the Mediterranean in a large vessel, the commandos switched to a dinghy to make their way ashore. In Tunisia they were met by three men carrying Lebanese passports who provided two Volkswagen vans...
...number 10 of the day. What a day for Williams." The 10 homers set a Mosholu Parkway record. No one has yet to tell me that the record has been shattered...
...tell that to George. He wanted to disrupt the team like a kid who wasn't chosen to play in a pickup stickball game. He said that Winfield was wrong in publishing The Book. He said that it would hurt the Yankees. He said that Winfield had to be traded...