Word: wings
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...turn into an archconservative, the living national treasure of Franco's long regime, but in the 1920s -- the years of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship -- he was a vehement parlor red. He even did jail time, briefly, when he was arrested as a reprisal against his father's left-wing political activity...
...race for the Elysee by the neo-Gaullist party chief Jacques Chirac, whose prospects had been eclipsed by Balladur's Teflon popularity, and former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. To crowd the field further, populist tycoon Bernard Tapie, under multiple criminal investigations, headed a high-scoring left-wing, pro-Europe ticket, which could inspire him to launch . a presidential...
...ordinary people by uncovering foundations of houses, determining their size and the location of doors and hearths. In 1995, after completing a tour of five American museums, the contents of the royal tombs will go on permanent display in the Bruning museum, where a specially constructed $800,000 wing will be financed partly by proceeds from the U.S. tour. It is not inconceivable that Sipan will someday rival Machu Picchu as a destination for scholars and tourists. From the shadows of the past, Sipan's Lord will have returned in glory to cast a golden glow over his country...
Eighty-seven Republican House members demanded the resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders two days after she peppered reporters with statements about "the un-Christian religious right." In a letter to President Clinton, Florida Representative Cliff Stearns, other lawmakers and spokespersons for right-wing Christian groups said Elders "has not chosen to utilize her position to advance the general health and welfare of all Americans but rather to advocate views antithetical to the majority of citizens." Among the Surgeon General's more provocative statements, in the past seven days: the legalization of narcotics should be considered, and girls should take...
...gardens of the presidential palace in Kigali, a chunk of fuselage lies in an ornamental pool. Passenger seats litter the once manicured lawn. A tail wing juts through banana leaves. This is ground zero of Rwanda's carnage, where the bloodletting that has taken more than 200,000 lives had its catalyst. On a quiet evening two months ago, a French-made Mystere-Falcon carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and the President of Burundi from peace talks in Tanzania was hit by rocket fire and slammed into the earth just outside the compound, killing all 10 on board...