Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moved on a federal judge's orders, two former Algiers residents, Robert Lee Davis, 20, and Johnny Brownlee, 23, told of being handcuffed, then beaten by New Orleans police with a hardback city directory; of being suffocated with a plastic bag; and of being taken out to a wooden bridge over a levee and having a shotgun put to their heads. One New Orleans detective, a black who had been given immunity from prosecution, corroborated some elements of the government's case. More than 20 other police officers, however, denounced the testimony of the accusers. "There are high...
Although the overall results of the contra campaign are difficult to determine, it is having a dire effect in some areas. Rancho Grande, a hamlet of wooden and tin-roofed dwellings in the coffee-growing region of Matagalpa, 35 miles from the Honduran border, was struck by the rebels last week. Two members of the local militia force, numbering about 25, were killed, along with a French microbiologist, Pierre Grosjean, 32, who was visiting the area to study leishmaniasis, an ulcerating skin disease. After the Rancho Grande assault, Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, whose brother Daniel is coordinator...
...studied the craft for 15 years. On-camera, he has the charm and unthreatening masculinity of a slightly more serious Burt Reynolds. Others are getting on-the-job training. "I try as hard as I can, but I see where I need improvement," says Barton. Still others, like the wooden Scalia, appear to have graduated from the Ali MacGraw School of Thespian Arts. "I would have preferred it if Scalia had had some acting experience," admits Thurm, who brought him into television. "But we weren't asking him to play King Lear." Bo Derek, meet Jack Scalia and Peter...
April 2, 7:30 a.m.--An unidentified truck with Connecticut license plates careened across the Business School parking lot and smashed through the wooden entrance arm on the Garden Rd. side of the lot. The guard allegedly witnessed this incident, but no further information was available...
Hunt predicts that life will return to normal once all the soldiers are moved into military accommodations. Prefab wooden camps are being built outside Port Stanley, while the first "coastel," a barge stacked with metal freighter containers and able to house 930 men, has been installed. Construction of a new "strategic airport" that will be able to handle jumbo jets is scheduled to begin in October. Because no flights are allowed from Argentina, the Falklands are even more isolated than they were before the war. Visitors arriving by air must take a slow, cumbersome C-130 Royal Air Force Hercules...