Word: belly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union, Poland is a casus belli, a question on which she would go to war with the Western alliance. It has always been my belief that the U.S. can influence Soviet behavior toward Poland, but it cannot break the political and strategic connection between these two unequal neighbors without taking up arms. For the moment, that is the melancholy reality. Almost surely, it will not obtain over the long course. Where the indomitable spirit of a nation is involved, there is always the potential for evolution and for explosive change. As President Reagan came to office, nobody knew whether...
...trip started, it appeared certain Israel would invade Lebanon in a matter of hours, days or weeks. On June 3, the casus belli the Israelis had been waiting for materialized. In London, Arab terrorists shot and grievously wounded Shlomo Argov, the Israeli Ambassador to Britain. Israel bombed a P.L.O. ammunition dump in Beirut, and the P.L.O. struck back against northern Israel. On June 5, the Israeli Cabinet approved a large-scale invasion of Lebanon. Begin informed us that the objective was to drive the P.L.O. back 40 km from the Israeli border...
Betty McMullen and Melvin Belli, the plaintiffs' principal attorneys, urged their clients to form a Dignity After Death Society; the group's tearful demonstrations outside Harbor Lawn have generated morbid interest. The two lawyers also placed ads in the Santa Ana Register in Orange County, looking for others with loved ones who were cremated at Harbor Lawn...
...Humberto Belli...
Last week Bowen, 29, a circulation manager for the San Jose Mercury News, pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and poisoning of medicine. In a surprise move, Belli introduced Susan Bowen in court in an attempt to obtain his client's release on bail. Unable to speak because of brain-stem damage sustained in the poisoning, Bowen's wife nodded in assent when Santa Clara County Municipal Court Judge Stephen Manley read a written statement in which she said, "I in no way suspect him of trying to injure me." Judge Manley, however, denied bail...