Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...tearful meeting with student hunger strikers in Tiananmen Square. Then came the crackdown and Zhao's expulsion from the party. Friends now report that Zhao is at peace with his current situation. Small wonder. He may have lost his chauffeured Mercedes 500, but he still has a staff of five aides and an assigned Nissan that comes with, yes, a mini-bar. Zhao seldom leaves his house, spending most of his days reading and watching videotapes. One acquaintance quotes the ex-leader: "I didn't realize so many good movies existed...
...illness from cancer afflicting Southwesterners who had lived downwind from the Nevada nuclear-test site from the 1950s to the early '60s. Victims were convinced their illness came from clouds of radiation. Udall was outraged to learn that a 1981 U.S. Public Health Service survey had found cancer rates five times higher than normal among 15,000 white and Navajo uranium miners in the region but concealed the findings from the victims. He began filing claims against the Government on behalf of both the miners and the "downwinders...
Last week Owens told his colleagues that the victims are owed "compensation and an apology." The House agreed, approving a $100 million fund to aid affected families in five Southwestern states. But even if the Senate goes along, the Justice Department has urged President Bush to veto the measure as "another entitlement program." Udall, now 70 and practicing law in Santa Fe, is writing a book on Government callousness in the atomic age. The Bush Administration may provide him with another chapter...
...game is Texas Hold 'Em (no limit), a diamondback species of seven-card stud in which each player gets two cards down, and then five cards usable by all players are dealt face up; the first three at the same time, then the fourth, then the last. You can't bring in fresh money, so that when you run dry, you're gone, frozen out. The last two gunslingers left on the tournament's fourth day are firing from behind stacks worth a total of $1.94 million...
...look who's still here as play ends for the day. Diane Borger from Winnipeg is one of five women in what is still largely a man's game. She's a psychology student at California Lutheran University, of all places, where she will have to finish her master's thesis if she doesn't place well at Binion's. Borger is small and blond, and though she's 28, she looks like a little girl. When she plays, she wears a blue cap that says TOP GUN and smokes long, skinny cigars. All you can see is her little...