Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...bombs appear to have been dropped on Baghdad proper. The raids have been contained for the most part to the French-built nuclear energy facility just outside the city and industrial targets in the suburbs. One direct hit, in particular, on petroleum storage tanks next to a power station, caused a huge fire that turned Baghdad's blackout into a stage setting for Götterdämmerung. The minarets and distinctive egg-shaped domes of the city's mosques were silhouetted against a sky that glowed deep crimson all night long...
...something more direct from the President seemed required. ABC's Barbara Walters had been pressing for an interview with him since the convention. Monday night, after Carter's Chicago blast, Powell called her in California. Said he: "The President wants to talk about the tone of the campaign...
...stunning triumph over the dislocations of war and the sectarian antagonisms of the Middle East. To begin with, the buses were supplied by Israel's implacable foe Iran, which must have needed the vehicles for the war effort back home. Forced to bypass Iraq, which provides the most direct route to Jordan, the drivers headed north to Turkey. There they were delayed for a week because the border was closed. Finally allowed to pass through Turkey, they were held up for four more days by the Syrians. As Iranians in a hostile Arab world, the drivers were probably lucky...
...Carter foreign policy advisers and their would-be successors in the Reagan camp are going to have to rethink their plans for protecting the security of the Persian Gulf. Both Carter and Reagan have elaborate strategies for deterring direct Soviet military intervention. But as recent weeks have shown, the more immediate threat is indigenous turmoil. Neither presidential candidate-nor anyone else, for that matter-has an answer to that problem or to the encroachment of Soviet diplomacy, such as the friendship treaty with Syria that Presidents Leonid Brezhnev and Hafez Assad signed last week...
...home team practically took karate lessons in Harvard's penalty area, with direct and indirect kicks flying all over the place. But most of Harvard's free kicks were from its own defensive zone...