Word: cars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said the first vehicle went round a bend in the road, "and when the two observers noticed that Higgins' car was not following them, they stopped and drove back, only to find Higgins' station wagon abandoned...
Security sources in Tyre said two gunmen in a brown Volvo passed Higgins' car, blocked the road, forced Higgins into their car and drove north toward Tyre...
...taken a drink within a month of the study, and more than a third had got ripsnorting drunk within the previous two weeks. Only 26%, by comparison, believed daily drinking would threaten their health or safety -- despite ample evidence that alcohol is implicated in the majority of teenage car crashes, as well as many suicides and murders. Many states have responded by raising the drinking age to 21. Meanwhile, a growing number of parents, faced with the reality that good kids most often die of bad judgment, are wondering: Why can't we keep our children from drinking? Many...
...grateful if their kids aren't smoking pot or snorting cocaine," says Hanne Lille-Schulstad, a Lawrence, Kans., drug-abuse specialist. Others simply hope for the best: that drunken teens will have the sense to call home for a ride or allow a sober friend to take the car keys away before they get behind the wheel. Says one Hollywood Hills, Calif., mother of a 15-year-old son: "They don't want to be seen as punitive, so they walk the line of being understanding...
...miles away, near Ramallah, a Jewish settler was severely burned by a Molotov cocktail lobbed through his car windshield. Fellow settlers responded by rampaging through Anabta while it was under curfew, smashing windows and wrecking cars before Israeli soldiers ordered them away. In the town of Tulkarm, rumors of further settlers' invasions the next day sparked violent protests that left one Palestinian dead. In Gaza, another died of his wounds, bringing the death toll to 43. Defense Minister Rabin angrily called the settlers a "burden" on hard-pressed security forces. But clashes continued throughout the territories, from remote villages...