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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suppose one way of thinking about what we're doing now is sort of walking our way around the landscape, learning about the landscape in order to decide to what extent we want to have a more formal look at any particular aspect," says Pilbeam...
...agencies in the same field. The Forum can also serve the important function of allowing you to practice "interviewing" with a representative of an agency without the stakes being too high. One other aspect of the Forum is that many of the for-profit organizations represented also have some sort of public service programs - it can't hurt...
...similar sort of success may await Some Can Whistle, McMurtry's 13th novel. If so, that will be a redemption of sorts for an uncharacteristical ly spotty performance between hard covers. Plot has given way to concocted situations, conversation displaced by laugh-track dialogue. Everything and everyone in the tale reeks of Hollywood, particularly the narrator...
...first, the U.S. retorted that its limited maneuvers were intended only to safeguard American lives and property, as permitted under the Panama Canal treaties. "There were rumors around that this was some sort of an American operation," President Bush said on Tuesday. "I can tell you that is not true." Two days later senior officials acknowledged that they had acted at the request of the rebels...
...when Major Moises Giroldi Vera, leader of the failed attempt, told U.S. officials in Panama that an uprising was imminent. The news was surprising, since Giroldi was a Noriega loyalist who played a key role in quelling the previous military revolt in March 1988. "Giroldi's a bastard, a sort of mini-Noriega," says a Pentagon official. "Warning signs went up. We feared a Noriega trap." Fueling that suspicion was the fact that two principal U.S. players -- General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and General Maxwell Thurman, chief of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama...