Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zimbabwe has been crumbling. What attracted the most attention back home was Smith's remarks about foreign investment. In the interview, Smith did urge the West to give economic aid to Zimbabwe, but also warned that "there is the danger of the free world falling into the trap of aiding and abetting the establishment of a one-party Marxist dictatorship in a country that should be part of the free world...
During the ordeal, nine people were trap- ped inside the monument for a time, huge government buildings were evacuated and officials worried about the safety of the White House, only six blocks away
...commit themselves to any specific acts. Washington, finally aware that the sanctions were dividing the alliance without stopping the building of the pipeline, needed an excuse to end them. Said one senior adviser to Reagan: "We didn't want cheese. We just wanted out of the trap." The French attempt to deny Reagan even this measure efface saving irritated British and Italian as well as U.S. officials. All regarded it as a play to French public opinion, which since Gaullist days has placed a high premium on independence from Washington...
...spook escaped arrest, living in a seaside villa in Tripoli, Libya, on the proceeds from his lucrative business. In his dealings he enlisted help from former agents, as well as from firms he had used as covers in his CIA days. Last June federal agents sprung a brilliant, elaborate trap covering three continents and lured the elusive Wilson back to New York City, where he was then seized. His partner, former Agent Frank Terpil, is still at large...
...Alive (CBS, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.), which appropriates the dashing slogan, cut-to-measure mythos and even the name of the 1930s animal hunter Frank Buck. Mounted like an old Republic serial, the slap-happy adventure show boasts a congenial leading man in Bruce Boxleitner. He is required to trap all manner of jungle animals without doing them physical harm and, not incidentally, battle Nazis, Asian warlords and assorted jetsam that floats past Malaya...