Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their current spread near McLeod (pop. 5). In the cozy living room of his log-cabin house, McGuane throws another chunk of cottonwood on the fire as Laurie whips up a pot of hearty chicken soup in the kitchen. His lean, 6-ft. 3-in. frame draped across a wing chair, McGuane exudes the tempered confidence of hard-won experience. While many of his erstwhile drinking partners have fallen by the wayside, he has managed not only to survive but to thrive in his role of gentleman rancher and Marlboro Man of letters. "I guess I'm kind of like...
...former Senator who ran as head of a 17-party center-left coalition, Aylwin received 55.2% of the vote, easily defeating both a right-wing candidate backed by Pinochet and a populist businessman. Pinochet, whose attempt to retain power was rebuffed last year in a national plebiscite, is scheduled to step down March 11. But by staying on as Commander in Chief of the army for at least eight years, he will keep a hand on the reins...
...authoritarian" -- seemed to blur the Administration's view even more, that was part of the game. Behind the scenes, White House officials reminded conservatives that the overtures to the Soviets were extremely popular. "The big question is, Can we break 80% in our approval rating?" said a West Wing aide only half jokingly...
...maverick, returned to Managua last week in a homecoming more quixotic than heroic. The charismatic former guerrilla will campaign for dark-horse Social Christian presidential candidate Erick Ramirez, touting him as an alternative to both the Marxist Sandinistas and the National Opposition Union, a coalition dominated by the right wing...
...Right-wing violence directed against academic institutions has historical roots within El Salvador. The formerly prominent state-run Universidad Nacional de El Salvador (UNES) was devastated in 1979 by the army and was shut down from 1981 and 1984. Although since reopened, it has never been able to regain the international prominence it once commanded...