Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...December 1975 you and your fellow OPEC ministers were taken hostage in Vienna by Carlos, the international terrorist. Two people were killed before you were set free. As a victim of terrorism, how do you evaluate the phenomenon and its possible role in the gulf crisis...
With his sudden affluence, Bo paid off the mortgage on his mother's house on Florence Avenue and moved her to a rented home in middle-class Northridge. He bought his sister Carmen a manicure salon and a condominium in Tarzana. He set his brother Darron up in a high-rise on Wilshire Avenue in Westwood, paying the $3,000 monthly rent. Moving frequently to avoid being ripped off by other drug dealers, Bo placed his common-law wife Linda Payton and their son Brian Jr. in a San Fernando Valley apartment. As a hideaway, he bought...
...supply lower-level dealers with pagers and cellular telephones that were difficult for narcs to overhear, Michael Harris set up a front company, Telesis Electrical Co. He even became a patron of the arts. His money- laundering theatrical production company invested $385,000 in the Broadway production of Checkmates, which ran for five months...
That persuaded a California judge to let federal agents tap the phone at Villabona's house in Malibu. They overheard him set up his biggest deal yet: a 3,000 kilo-a-month supply line to buyers in Detroit. Michigan police moved in when the would-be buyers tried to deliver $5 million in cash to a motel outside Detroit...
...Congress into special session to vote a domestic version. There is a serious question, however, about just what the U.N. resolution would say. Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, speaking to reporters at the CSCE, disclosed that the U.S. was seeking a two-part resolution: the first part would set a deadline for Iraq to comply with previous U.N. demands that it get out of Kuwait; the second would authorize member nations to use "any means necessary" to compel compliance if the deadline is not met. When Bush broached the idea of such a resolution to him, French President Mitterrand...