Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...versatile Henry was forced to withdraw from the high jump, triple jump, and 100 and 200 meter finals--and the Crimson sorely missed...
Hoxha's successor is Ramiz Alia, 59, who was named the new party chief on Saturday. Most observers believe that Alia, Albania's President since 1982, has been the effective ruler since Hoxha began to withdraw from public view last year because of poor health and a desire to add to his published works, which at his death ran to 39 volumes...
...have to spend more time with their new machines, they may become more solitary and avoid the human contact that does so much to enrich the university experience. If it really takes 100 or 200 hours to prepare a good program suitable for an hour's instruction, professors may withdraw to develop software leaving students to work alone at their consoles. There is also a risk of overlooking subtler benefits that come from older, less "efficient" methods of education. Lectures may be passive, but as the early devotees of self-paced instruction soon discovered, they can have an inspirational value...
...Vietnamese. With no retreat possible, Carpenter called down an air strike on his own position. "We might as well take some of them with us," he radioed to his battalion command post. The napalm attack injured seven of Carpenter's men, yet enabled the unit to consolidate and later withdraw. Already well known as the "Lonesome End" and captain of Army's 1959 football team, "Napalm Bill" Carpenter won a Distinguished Service Cross for his actions. Carpenter, 47, stayed in the Army; last December he was promoted to major general and put in command of a newly organized light infantry...
...remains the nominal leader of the U.N.-recognized Kampuchean coalition government-in-exile. Although Sihanouk, 62, has outlasted the Lon Nol and Pol Pot governments that replaced him, he is not sanguine about prevailing over the Vietnamese invaders who control his country. Says he: "The Vietnamese will never withdraw. In one or two generations, my people and their children will not know what they are." The prince resides in mansions maintained for him by friendly governments in China, North Korea and Thailand, and often visits Cambodian refugee communities in France and the U.S. He plays his part energetically, but sees...