Word: partings
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...suggesting he had "to go to the brink" of war to keep peace. The President ponders a question on whether his current policy is a Dulles echo, then says, "Maybe so, maybe so. What I'm trying to do is convince Saddam Hussein that I intend to do my part in implementing the United Nations resolutions. The way to have peace is for him to understand that. I don't think he does...
...synching is another form of hypocrisy, and the revelations about the pop group Milli Vanilli seemed to be merely part of a trend. Lip-synching, in fact, is a new American art form. Herewith, the Leading Lip Synchers...
While defense lawyers were said to be shocked by Darci's confession, the prosecution remains convinced that it is part of a cover-up designed "to protect his father and others." Premeditated murder, the charge against both father and son, carries a sentence of 12 to 30 years...
...Hamptons have gone home to Marion from Los Angeles, and their journey is part of a discreet reverse migration of Southern blacks with second thoughts. "When we left the South, it was a one-way deal," says Joseph Hampton, 57, . a retired aircraft-parts machinist. So it was for 6.5 million other blacks who fled northward between 1910 and 1970 in one of the greatest transplantations in American history. "The first migration was a huge wave crashing on the beach," says Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land, a forthcoming book about this vast crossing. "This is the small undertow...
...peaceful life. "On Sundays you can hear a pin drop anywhere in the city," says Eugene Dykes, 65. Six years ago, he returned to Columbia, S.C., after 29 years in Los Angeles, working mostly as shipping supervisor for the Automobile Club of Southern California. But in a deeper sense, part of the South's appeal to its black emigrants is the strange intimacy that has always existed between the races in the region's rural culture. Their homecoming is partly an illumination of the old saying that in the South you can get close as long...