Word: closer
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Gaddafi proved to be not only closer to Chad but also more anxious to break the stalemate. Terming it "technical and humanitarian assistance," the Libyan leader dispatched a sizable military force into Chad last week, which all but ended the civil war. The Libyan invasion force included more than 4,000 infantry, backed by 50 Soviet-supplied T-54 and T-55 tanks, along with 122-mm rocket launchers, 81-mm mortars and even U.S.-built Chinook helicopters. Against such unexpected fire power, Habré's forces retreated across the Chari River into Cameroon. Two days later Habr...
...this Administration may be read in the evolution from "Jimmy" to "Carter," one name, in a sense, being the polar opposite of the other. The first law of nicknaming, then, is that the term must arise from the heart, from some irrepressible popular urge to bring a public figure closer to the family bosom. Britain's Margaret Thatcher was aided immeasurably in her campaign by being known as Maggie; "Ted" Heath and "Sunny Jim" Callaghan were similarly embraced. So was Rhodesia's Ian Smith, who was known as "Good Old Smitty" to his white supporters...
...crime: racketeering. The verdict: guilty. The sentence? There was the rub. The judge imposed ten years in prison, but federal prosecutors in Rochester wanted the mobster put away for a period closer to the 34-year maximum...
...magnate in France. Commercial publish must still depend on the state-run advertising agency Havas to help them contract for major advertising. Moreover, under Giscard, a bewildering catalogue of government subsidies for such publishing costs as paper, telephone and telex communications has drawn financially pressed newspapers into an ever closer dependency on the Palace. Says Roger Fressoz, editor of the outspoken satiric weekly Le Canard Enchaîné (circ. 640,000): "Everything was put in place so that the major media. . . are controlled by the President's men, who regulate carefully and severely all the wheels, leaving nothing...
Just about the hottest alto sax around, Arthur Blythe synthesizes and consolidates the disparate approaches of his first two Columbia albums-the first experimental, following trails laid down by Ornette Coleman, the second closer to the Ellington tradition-and, using two separate combos, fuses them with the white hot heat of his horn. Illusions is a furious exercise in musical release. This man uses his sax like a blowtorch...