Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 20 hours of fighting, the rebels retreated. In their wake they left hundreds dead; the central marketplace, the Roman Catholic Cathedral and more than half of the town were in smoldering ruins. More than 25,000 refugees were without shelter, water and rice; another 35,000 fled by boat to Zamboanga on Mindanao-an island that itself is racked with Moslem insurgency...
...Buster the Body Crab. Their first two albums have sold 4 million copies so far, and their newest, Los Cochinos, jumped onto the pop charts at 22, a feat usually accomplished only by top rockers. But several others are stalking comedy's new-found rock audience in their wake...
...there are the quirks that make America so endlessly amusing and fascinating. In a San Diego dawn, that Eastern liberal warhorse Murray Kempton, a writer and sometime columnist, titillated the Nixon folks with his gentle irreverence on one of those wake-up TV shows. "I liked Nixon when he was a Commie fighter," he said. "He believed it. It was pure." Then there was the night Bill Hall, a liberal editor of the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune, one of those splendid small papers that keep our society awake, found himself defending Nixon before students at the University of Idaho. When Nixon...
...wake of the criticism that descended on school officials, minor revisions have been made in the report card; for example, the phrase "goals and accomplishments" has been substituted for "terminal objectives." Superintendent Estes also hired a freelance writer last November to write yet another supplementary pamphlet, which in effect will explain the explanation. At last report the writer was only halfway through the job. Reason for the delay: he is having difficulty understanding the manual...
...disengagement plan has fundamentally affected Israeli negotiating positions by taking away the offensive option of continuing a state of war both because the big powers have closed off this course and because the Israelis "recognize that capacity to win is no longer in itself a deterrent" in the wake of increased Arab military strength, one of the members of the group said yesterday...