Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Libyan troops bring calm-and the threat...
Defending the role of his Libyan allies not long ago, Chad's provisional President Goukouni Oueddei boasted that since the Islamic legion had intervened, "peace and calm" had been restored to N'Djamena after nine months of bloody civil strife. Indeed, with the .exception of an occasional gunshot or the roar of a Libyan jet fighter wheeling overhead, within the capital an eerie quiet reigns. The bulk of the residents who fled N'Djamena when fighting broke out between Oueddei supporters and the rival forces of former Defense Minister Hissène Habré do not seem...
Rather is a hustling, intense reporter with a staccato style. Will he be able, like Cronkite, to leave a steadying impression of calm underneath all the turmoil of the news? In Rather's eagerness to keep his commitment to 60 Minutes too, he has been taping so many segments in advance that his smile has lately seemed a little tenser. He also knows that around CBS there were those who would have preferred Roger Mudd (who, being passed over, defected to NBC) or the amiable Charles Kuralt, whose CBS morning news has become something of a hit. The other...
Lemmon, following Bain's lead, turned in a truly awesome performance against Tiger opponent Steve Loughran, in the tournament's greatest upset. Calm and collected playing paid off for Lemmon, as he beat the favored Loughran...
...southeastern city of Rzeszów, meanwhile, a seven-week farmers' sit-in ended after government negotiators signed agreements with peasant leaders there and in nearby Ustrzyki Dolne. Just seven days after the new Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski had issued his dramatic appeal for "90 days of calm," peace, it seemed, had broken out on all labor fronts...