Word: post
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...seven battles, and during the last one, an assault on a government garrison outside the village of Dara Noor, he killed at close range for the first time. He had followed the fighters through mined fields, running like crazy, and was in the first wave that captured the enemy post. He and a friend came upon three soldiers scrambling down a hill. His friend shot one. Mohammad Anwar shot the other two, thumping the bodies with his rifle butt to make sure they were dead, then calmly removing a revolver from the first corpse...
...recess, and the boys head to the courtyard to perform a drill. Three of them, carrying Kalashnikovs carved of wood, step across imaginary mines, break into an enemy post and surround two "Russian" prisoners. The boys act out the taking and holding of the prisoners, the blindfolding and the stiff parade back to the base. What happens next to the prisoners is not acted...
...melodrama of his separation from his wife Ivana and his affair with the model Marla Maples. The distress of Donald, the biggest self-promoter of the past decade, was too poetic to resist. TRUMP IN A SLUMP declared the New York Daily News. UH-OWE! said the city's Post, which dubbed Trump's new casino "the eighth blunder of the world...
...Gorbachev instead signed a joint statement to slash the numbers of strategic nuclear warheads, and they inked formal pacts to eliminate most of their arsenals of chemical arms and to verify limits on nuclear testing. Those, however, were old, well-worn issues; progress came harder on the newer, post-cold war problems. When they could find no common ground between the West's insistence that a united Germany be a member of NATO and Gorbachev's refusal to countenance any such arrangement, the two Presidents bucked the subject down to the ministerial level for further discussion...
...best "workers" and thinkers to show Gorbachev his enthusiasm and sincerity, which is what official entertaining has been about since John Adams opened up the house. The guests journeyed into Washington by corporate jet (Ford's chairman, Harold Poling) and Amtrak (Princeton's legendary Soviet expert George Kennan). Washington Post publisher Donald Graham could not get his car past the befuddled White House police, so he hoofed it up the sidewalk...