Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...once again made it possible to ask troublesome questions about his judgment. It simply made no sense that a member of the President's family had served as the agent of a foreign-and often unfriendly-nation. The President could and should have done something to stop it. Instead, the White House, perhaps accidentally, actually contributed to Billy's role as a go-between with Libya...
...Libya," was the way Nasife pointedly concluded the letter of agreement. Billy flew to Tripoli again at the end of August for a visit that coincided with the tenth anniversary of Libya's revolution. He returned without any commitment from Libya to make more oil available to Charter. Instead, Libya was cutting back its oil production and later reduced Charter's allotment...
...medal. Luciano Giovannetti of Italy, who won the gold medal in trapshooting, was the first champion to have the Olympic flag and hymn used at his ceremony (Italy and a number of other Western European countries chose to participate in Moscow but to protest by using Olympic symbols instead of their own). Tears rose in his eyes afterward when a group of his countrymen draped a green, red and white Italian flag over his shoulders. The Soviet crowd jeered when no national flags were raised after a Swiss, a Frenchman and a Dane finished one-two-three...
...underappreciated Martin is represented by his Sonata da Chiesa (1938) for viola d'amore and organ. The composer authorized the use of a flute instead of viola, and later scored the keyboard part for string orchestra. A Musical Heritage recording of the flute-and-organ option features Jean-Pierre Rampal and Marie-Claire Alain. But the flute cannot execute the double stops and many other subtleties possible on the viola d'amore, a little-used instrument with more strings than the normal viola. In this piece Martin fused serial and tonal procedures skillfully, and Thompson's interpretation particularly emphasizes...
...turned instead to basketball, taking it up seriously her first winter in Cambridge. "I thought basketball was going to be my sport," she says. "Then, I discovered soccer...