Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very ordinary person in my tastes and interests, but I have been used as an instrument in extraordinary ways." Yet he often seems beset by deep personal doubts, as if unable to erase the taunts of his youth. In private he is quiet to the point of being withdrawn. Says a friend: "People who have only seen him in public wouldn't recognize him." Despite his wide experience, he is painfully unworldly. "If you take Jesse to a fancy French restaurant," says someone who knows him, "he'll wind up with spaghetti and meat balls. He has very, very unsophisticated...
That proposal has been on the congressional agenda every year for the past 15 ever King was assassinated. The bill stalled every time reaching the House floor only once--in 1979--where it was quickly watered down and subsequently withdrawn. But last week it passed the lower house by an incredible 338 to 90 vote. Senate Majority leader Howard H Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.) has promised to bring it straight to the Senate floor for debate when the legislators return vacation in September and Presidential aides have hinted that Ronald Reagan might give the measure his support...
...fast turnabout in the contras' fortunes is occurring along much of the border between Honduras and Nicaragua. The F.D.N.'s field commanders admit that they have withdrawn all their forward troops to the rear mountain zones. Equally unmistakable is the new mood that has replaced the euphoria of early spring. The F.D.N.'s political and military leaders are divided among themselves. "Our people feel we are fighting a much more powerful enemy than we ever expected," admits a worried F.D.N. leader. "They have trucks and planes and are even bringing vans of Pepsi-Cola to the front...
...local effort, CALC and Trans-Africa have effectively stopped the sale of Krugerrands. Capitalizing on local pressure surrounding the recent mayoral election, the two groups extracted pledges from both Harold Washington and Bernard Epton the two candidates for mayor--that after the election, all city funds would be withdrawn from any bank selling the South African made coins...
While Beineix was dodging or tossing custard pies in the main competition, three other directors-all women, all in their 30s-were earning praise outside it. Boat People by Ann Hui of Hong Kong was withdrawn from competition, reportedly at the insistence of the French government, which is seeking to solidify its relations with the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. The caution is understandable: this film, shot partly in mainland China, is a powerful piece of humanist propaganda about a family trying to escape Da Nang three years after the U.S. forces evacuated Viet...