Word: vidal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguan village of Leimus watched with mounting concern as Sandinista troops began moving into the bustling town, a stronghold of the country's independent-minded Miskito Indians. Then, on a moonlit night just before Christmas, the Hondurans began hearing bursts of automatic rifle fire. An Indian mineworker, Roberto Vidal Poveda, 18, recounted his ordeal to TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, who talked to a number of Miskito refugees: "During the night, the Sandinistas took us out and started to kill us, one by one. They made me stand by the river, but I jumped when they started to shoot...
Venezuelan halfback Cheche Vidal collected a ball unmolested in his own end and hit a long pass past the Crimson backline to a sprinting David Munson. The sophomore defender took the ball on a dead run, dribbled, in, and hit a low, right-footed drive under charging goalkeeper Peter Walsh...
...Estaing of France, Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda of Japan, and even the emperor of Hollywood, Bob Hope. There were fireworks and fishing contests, viewings of the Gerald Ford stamp collection, and a $1,000-a-plate dinner of chicken breast complemented by Michigan wine (Tabor Hill Winery's Vidal Semi-Blanc...
...trouble is that these insulters leave no heirs. The best we have-William F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal, Truman Capote -show a flair from time to time, but perhaps because cleverness is so desperately expected of them, often sound as if their hearts are not in it, as if they are merely paying tribute to the old masters. Capote once called Jacqueline Susann "a truck driver in drag." Have we come to this? During Watergate, H.R. Haldeman's lawyer, John J. Wilson, referred to Senator Daniel K. Inouye as "that little Jap." He then defended himself by saying that...
...while he was rising in the busi ness world: "I got pretty damn good." Chicago Realty Mogut Evangeline Gouletas awards herself an ovation on the eve of marrying Governor Hugh Carey of New York: "In Chicago, they love me. In Chicago, I am already First Lady." Novelist Gore Vidal confides why the New York Times published a favorable review of his new book Creation: "They're desperate for me to write for them...