Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airport, the story continued, by Wolfram Bossert and driven in a rickety Volkswagen down a potholed dirt road into a virtual slum. "My father's house," Rolf remembered, "was nothing more than a wooden hut." Inside, it was meanly furnished with a bed, a table, a few chairs and a closet. As he entered the house, Rolf recalled, "my father trembled with excitement. I saw that he had tears in his eyes...
Radical Shi'ite factions settled into a virtual viper's nest in Baalbek, an ancient city in the Bekaa Valley 40 miles east of Beirut. There a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, inspired by the Khomeini revolution, sent young Lebanese fanatics out on bottle-smashing sprees in the bars of Beirut, taught them how to rig cars with powerful bombs and prepared them to die for their cause. "Like Khomeini," says Gary Sick, a former National Security Council staffer and an expert on Islamic fundamentalism, "these Shi'ite fundamentalists are rejecting the entire Western system...
English soccer teams were under virtual quarantine last week in the wake of the Brussels rampage by Liverpool fans that left 38 dead, most of them Italian followers of Juventus, a team from Turin. First the Union of European Football Associations banned all English clubs from playing in European championship tournaments for "an indefinite period." Then the International Football Federation excluded English professional teams from international competition. England's national team was exempted, however, enabling it to remain in World Cup competition. English soccer officials called the global ban excessive...
...musical accompaniment, while the actors (their faces often decorated with red or green war paint) are showered with a hodgepodge of spotlight effects meant to simulate movie close-ups. Most of the 3 1/2 hours is played at fever-pitch intensity; yet the climactic dueling scene is performed in virtual darkness, and in hushed tones barely above a whisper...
...Their expulsion was decreed last month by the ruling military junta headed by Major General Mohammed Buhari. Under the order, an estimated 700,000 illegal immigrants living in Nigeria were given until May 10 to leave the country. When the deadline expired, the Nigerian authorities sealed the borders, making virtual prisoners of all those who had been unable to leave the country by land, sea or air. Many were stranded on clogged roads with little money and no food. Some were herded into a Lagos airport terminal normally used by pilgrims departing for Mecca. The refugees were told they would...