Word: tween
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...received "severe blows to the head and body" during the assault on the bus. But the two Arabs were still alive when security men took them to an adjacent field for questioning about whether or not the bus was booby-trapped for a delayed explosion. At some point be tween the retaking of the bus and the end of the interrogation, each man suffered "a blow dealt to the back of the head by a blunt instrument," fracturing the skull and killing...
...critics admit that Botha, 68, who became Prime Minister almost six years ago, has made things a little better. He has given a measure of political power to the Asian and "colored" (mixed-race) minorities, though none to the 21-million black majority. He has reduced the hostilities be tween South Africa and the black-ruled states of Mozambique and Angola. Finally, Botha has said he is prepared under certain conditions to give independence to Namibia, a territory that South Africa governs in violation of United Nations resolutions...
From the start, Botha's hosts went to some effort to keep a discreet distance be tween themselves and their guest. "I'm here because I was invited by different governments," Botha declared upon arrival in Lisbon, though most of the govern ments concerned were saying that he had invited himself. When asked about the demonstrations that threatened to interrupt his travels, Botha bristled, "We live in a free world. It is everyone's right to demonstrate, even to make fools of themselves...
...contras would drag the U.S. into a war against Nicaragua, and Casey's briefings did not always reassure them. One Senator told TIME last week that the CIA director once went so far as to present a plan for a possible eventual partition of Nicaragua be tween a Sandinista regime in the west and a contra-ruled state in the east. Though the congressional committees cannot veto any CIA activities outright, they can, in Moynihan's words, "push and pull" the agency away from dubious schemes (as happened with the proposal to partition Nicaragua). Should that fail...
Government budget deficits should decline, said Mast, even if they remain be tween 14% and 16% of gross national product in Italy, Belgium and Sweden. Given this background, Mast expected that "1984 could be the year of declining interest rates in both the U.S. and Europe." Other board members, though, remained skeptical about any significant drop in the cost of money...