Word: except
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...from the airport, Van Es saw Soviet tanks and troop carriers everywhere. After two nights of house arrest at the Kabul Inter-Continental Hotel, he managed to slip away for a look at downtown Kabul on New Year's Day. He found surprisingly few Soviet soldiers on the streets except in front of Radio Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry and the post office. Back at the hotel, an employee told him: "Did you see many 'others' in town? There are tens of thousands. They are like a steel ring around the city...
...embassy. The Secretary-General was under instruction to report back to the U.N. Security Council before its next meeting on Iran, scheduled for Monday, Jan. 7; if he signaled failure, the council had agreed to begin its debate on whether to impose an embargo on all exports to Iran except food and drugs...
...squeeze play. If they are, the price of silver could go far higher, then plunge as breathlessly as it climbed if and when the investors bailed out. One speculator widely mentioned in these stories is Bunker Hunt (see box page 61), but he insists that he has no plans except to hold on and watch his hoard grow...
...Sellers' meticulously controlled performance brings off this seemingly impossible task; as he proved in Lolita, he is a master at adapting the surreal characters of modern fiction to the naturalistic demands of movies. His Chance is sexless, affectless and guileless to a fault. His face shows no emotion except the beatific, innocent smile of a moron. His verbal repertoire consists only of mild pleasantries, polite chuckles and vague homilies about gardening. Sellers' gestures are so specific and consistent that Chance never becomes clownish or arch. He is convincing enough to make the film's fantastic premise credible...
...AIAW was formed eight years ago, it has faced the possibility of the old, established and wealthy NCAA moving in and taking over the organization of women's collegiate athletics. But consistently in past years, the men's governing body steered clear of women's sports, rarely racing them except when pressured by ever-controversial Title IX restrictions...