Word: accidentally
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At Chernenko's funeral in 1985, Gorbachev encountered Armand Hammer, the American businessman who has been trading with the Soviets since Lenin's day, and denounced Ronald Reagan to him as a man who wanted war. He mellowed after meeting the U.S. President later that year at their first summit...
Ships in the area rescued 26 people from the shark-infested waters, but no more. It was the worst peacetime maritime disaster of the century, exceeding the record of the Titanic, which went down in 1912 with some 1,500 on board. The worst shipping calamity occurred during World War...
The tragedy was not the first in the waters off the islands of Mindoro and Marinduque, among the busiest sea-lanes in the archipelago. Less than 40 miles from where the Dona Paz went down, the ferry Don Juan collided with an oil tanker in 1980. More than 100 drowned...
It was, as Soviets like to say, "no accident" that in the same month as Brezhnev's Tula speech, Nikolai Ogarkov became chief of the Soviet general staff. Marshal Ogarkov was a controversial choice among the top brass. He had been the top military representative to SALT. The civilian leadership...
For Susan Lazarchick, the decision to undergo an experimental knee transplant was frighteningly simple. A benign tumor the size of a grapefruit was rapidly consuming her right knee and shinbone. Doctors had offered her two other options: amputation, or a bone fusion, which would render her stiff-legged for the...