Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defendants pleaded mitigating circumstances, ranging from deprived childhoods to ignorance of the real motive of their missions. Some insisted that they had been recruited only to serve in Zaire. Others claimed that they had signed up only to train F.N.L.A. forces. Gearhart and Acker said they had never shot at anyone. Acker insisted that he had been "ambushed, wounded and captured before I could take any offensive action...
...Plains, Ga. He figured that he had made 2,050 speeches in the past 6½ months, "and I'm tired." At least 1,000 people came from miles around, danced in the streets of the small town, hummed and clapped with a spiritual group that sang from the train platform and waited to greet Jimmy as he arrived at 1:30 on the morning after the Super Bowl. Then he got up on the train platform and spoke under a three-quarter moon...
...paraplegic visitors; it lists all of the hotels, Government buildings, stores and other institutions that have facilities for the handicapped. In San Francisco, the Bay Area's new rapid transit system, BART, has equipped all stations with elevators to carry wheelchair users to both the ticket-buying and train levels; train doors are wide enough for two wheelchairs to enter abreast. Washington's new subway system has followed suit. In Atlanta, Milwaukee and Sacramento, public buses are being fitted out with special lifts to hoist wheelchairs up from the sidewalk. (Champaign, Ill., buses have been so equipped...
Executives of the crisis-prone Lockheed Aircraft Corp. are well aware of the risk in seeing a light at the end of the tunnel: they can never tell when it might be another freight train heading Lockheed's way. Last week, however, the light that Chairman Robert W. Haack saw turned out to be for real. Lockheed's 24 creditor banks approved a plan to restructure the company's debt in a way that clearly eases the aerospace giant's financial woes, though it does not solve them...
This is hardly the ore of glistening literary biography and, save for a précis of Chandler's boozy sojourn in Hollywood -where he wrote the script for Double Indemnity and Strangers on a Train-McShane does little more than apologize for his reticent and rude subject. Like one of Marlowe's villains, Chandler was anti-Semitic and anti-Negro in inclination, alcoholic in practice and notably hostile even to those who praised...