Word: wounded
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...Director David Stockman first floated the idea of drastic foreign aid cuts, Secretary of State Alexander Haig reacted like a challenged general. A diplomatic compromise was soon reached: a 26% cut, down to a $4.8 billion 1982 outlay. "I am not going to pretend the cuts were a flesh wound," says State Department Spokesman William Dyess. "There was bleeding, but we support the cuts." Strategically important commitments to Egypt and Israel will remain mostly intact, meaning that the cuts will probably come from development aid programs involving the Third World. Some experts argue that the Reagan Administration's emphasis...
DIED. Jack Zuinglius Anderson, 76, California rancher who was elected to seven consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in 1939, and later served President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a congressional liaison specializing in farm legislation; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Hollister, Calif...
...shot didn't fall, however, and after a knock-'em down-scramble for the rebound--at least five players ended up on the floor--Princeton's Christel wound up with the ball and lofted a baseball throw to Mills, who sunk a fast break lay-up which brought the crowd to its feet...
...body and created the bullet hole in the back of his neck [Jan. 19], is apparently unaware that the anesthetist, Dr. Marion Jenkins, at Parkland Hospital in Dallas had found the bullet hole in the back of John F. Kennedy's neck and could see the corresponding exit wound on the front of his throat...
...freed hostages back from their 444 days of captivity with an orgy of emotion. Yellow ribbons were tied to virtually everything that could not or would not resist: trees, lampposts, TV cameras, trumpets, drums, pretty girls, the hostages' homes and public buildings, including the White House. Parades wound through Washington, New York City, Detroit, Milwaukee, San Diego and Columbia, S.C. Others will follow this week, in cities and towns where former hostages make their homes...