Word: thrusted
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...released 752 prisoners, mostly Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims, from the Ansar detention camp twelve miles north of the Israeli border. As the men emerged from buses, some carrying the insignia of the International Red Cross, they were received with wild jubilation and festooned with flowers. Some had rifles immediately thrust into their hands. But the men were less than half the number who had been held at the camp. A day earlier, 1,200 other blindfolded and bound Ansar prisoners had been loaded onto buses with covered windows and taken south to another detention center in Israel. The transfer...
Nonetheless, nonviolence remained the exception in South Africa rather than the rule. Two days before the clerics' protest, black women outside Johannesburg's regional court building chanted their approval as young blacks thrust clenched fists into the air amid shouts of "Power!" When a white - security man trained a video camera on the demonstrators, some of them stared back at him and silently drew their fingers across their throats. Eventually, with riot policemen watching from the turrets of two armed personnel carriers, 14 black prisoners were led out of the building and driven away to the Fort, Johannesburg's historic...
...victim." Lehtinen is leading a petition drive to eliminate this stipulation from the Florida constitution. A new group, Georgians for Victims' Justice, has helped pass state legislation that will permit victims to give written statements to a judge about the impact of a crime on their lives. Another major thrust of these groups is to let victims appear at parole hearings or, at least, require that they be notified before an offender is set free...
...thrust of the story seems to be that an irrational local body, the Cambridge Historical Commission, threatens to unreasonably inflict additional restrictions on Harvard's ability to dispose as it pleases with its property, historic or otherwise. Specifically, the officials quoted are concerned that the Commission may week to control the interiors of Harvard's buildings, and the Commission's concerns are characterized as "quibbling," "irrelevant," "unrealistic," and "troublesome," and that "overregulation" and "abuse of process" may accompany efforts at preservation. I think they should know better...
...material. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stored up a lot of impressions from her 3 1/2 hours of meetings with Gorbachev, and she carried them all across the Atlantic with her a month ago and constructed for Reagan the first flesh-and-blood portrait of his new adversary. The thrust of Thatcher's counsel was that Gorbachev, while still a Soviet and a Communist, was fresh and intelligent, a potentially major improvement over being dim and dying. The Prime Minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze...