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...farmers are safely out of the way, the Nicaraguan military will have created a free-fire zone in which it can use some of the dozen or so Mi-24 "Hind" helicopters it has received from the Soviet Union. The gunships, equipped with rockets and fast-firing guns, wield devastating firepower. Said Orlando Osario, a refugee evacuated with his family to the town of Jinotega, some 100 miles north of Managua: "I figured it was better to get out alive...
...repeatedly argued that Harvard would compromise its academic autonomy if it were to wield its influence in areas unrelated to education because it would leave itself open to having the influence of others imposed upon...
Today's election holds special significance, according to political observers outside the neighborhood, because of the influence the winner could exert over the multi-million dollar development plans for the area. And the new representative will wield the influence that comes with being part of the powerful Boston delegation...
...feel that the most erotic condition of all could not be that of any man or woman, or of any child, or of a human being with two sexes, but that of a very young and effeminate male angel...Such a being may give and take a guiltless delight, wield limitless sexual power without sexual politics, feel all the pleasures of sex with none of the personal risks, can never grow up, never get wise, and never grow...
...With Ustinov gone, the number of voting members in the Politburo has dropped to eleven, the lowest count in more than a decade. Sokolov may be elevated to the Politburo, but he is not expected to wield the same power that Ustinov did. A professional soldier, Sokolov began his career in the tank corps in the 1930s and rose through the ranks to become a regional military commander and, eventually, the senior administrative officer of the Defense Ministry. Said a NATO diplomat in Moscow: "The appointment does not change the basic rule that policy is made by the civilians...