Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu appealed for the American help to which he was entitled by the Paris treaty--and to which South Viet Nam had grown addicted. But the U.S. Congress, long since weary of Viet Nam, refused it. On April 21, Thieu resigned and a few days later flew to Taipei, reportedly shipping out a retirement fund of 3 1/2 tons of gold...
...ended quietly one night last week when several dozen agents surrounded him in Rossville, Ga. When he was apprehended, Pierce was sporting two pistols in his belt and a derringer in one pocket. Police found automatic weapons, a crossbow and arrows, fragmentation grenades and a pipe bomb in the van he was driving. Now serving the two-year term for counterfeiting in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Pierce also faces questioning in murder and armed-robbery cases...
...Byron White, 67, still plays a little basketball in the top-floor gym ("the highest court in the land"), while O'Connor goes there for aerobics. And everyone does a fair share of the mental exercise on the court. "There may be dreadfully reasoned or mistaken opinions," says William Van Alstyne of Duke University Law School, "but they can't be rationalized by the age of the Justices." Although most have complained about the heavy case load, there is little talk of retirement. "After all," quips University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard, "the job doesn't involve...
...turbocharged cars, he revs up and zooms off, quoting himself, zigzagging between '60s idiom ("flip out," "bummer") and mild profanity, tossing away irreverent asides like empty beer cans. Hyperbole comes naturally, and repeatedly: to the analysts in Detroit, he said Chrysler's admittedly successful mini-van is "the hottest new product . . . in your lifetimes." Says Douglas Fraser: "I'm a hip shooter. I'll admit it. But Lee, Lee is a hip shooter deluxe...
Wanda: You mean, since he's on the board, he's paid in a different way. What about Ronald Reagan's old ads for Chesterfield cigarettes, General Electric alarm clocks and toasters and wrinkle-free Van Heusen shirts? Isn't he a public figure...