Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a note of wistfulness in the Admiral's letter, Petty has retained the sense of control that many of us have lost in a time when a cadre or two of important men can wreak nearly infinite destruction. And the Admiral's offer wins Petty's undying gratitude: "The efficiency of those military men is a constant source of wonderment to me...Not only will it help our borders but also clear out an awkward corner of couch grass near the strawberries...
...There is in James Baldwin's work the most grueling, agonizing, total hatred of blacks, particularly of himself, and the most shameful, fanatical, fawning, sycophantic love of whites that one can find in the writings of any black American writer of note in our time." --Eldridge Cleaver from Soul...
...Carter praises them for maintaining their "balanced" attitude toward the conflict. The evidence for this assertion: the fact that "none of the European countries would permit the United States to refuel its aircraft taking supplies to Israel..." With balanced support like this, Israeli leaders are wont to note, who needs enemies...
...such talks were not going satisfactorily, they could unilaterally begin fighting again without losing the $14 million. In Managua's view, the U.S. "humanitarian" support would let the contras spend more of their own funds on weapons. At week's end, the government formally rejected the plan in a note to Washington. Contended Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann: "What President Reagan has said is, 'You drop dead, or I will kill...
Father Nicolas Kluiters, a Dutch Jesuit priest who had lived in Lebanon for 20 years, last month appeared to have joined the growing list of Westerners abducted by Islamic fundamentalists. A few days later his car was found, along with a note claiming that he was the captive of a previously unheard-of organization. Last week a farmer in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley stumbled upon the priest's decomposing body at the bottom of a ravine. An autopsy showed that he had been strangled shortly after his capture, and police theorized that the kidnaping was the work of robbers...