Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hell am I doing here? I don't think we lost. Am I weak? What did I do wrong? I did my job ... The concrete we laid, the jungle we cleared! What happened to the South Vietnamese who fought with us? ... A month ago, I was going to commit suicide. It's hard for me not to think of blowing people away. I'm afraid of going back to work. I'm afraid of life...
...Islam, what crimes they commit in your name! -Abolhassan Banisadr...
Fearing retaliation from his former partners after talking to federal investigators. Mulcahy went into hiding under assumed names. It took until April 1980, nearly four years after Mulcahy talked, for Wilson and Terpil to be finally charged with conspiring to sell explosives to Libya and to commit murder. Both are fugitives overseas and federal investigators believe they are still training terrorists in Tripoli. Their work pays well. They have bought more than $5 million worth of real estate in the U.S. and England...
...Israeli election campaign got under way-just as Likud edged ahead of Labor in one poll, 34% to 33%, after trailing, 14% to 44%, in January. To counter the summit as best it could, the Labor Party scheduled a Knesset debate on Begin's recently revealed 1978 commitment, taken without parliamentary consent, to commit Israel's air force to help Lebanon's right-wing Christians in the event of attack by Syrian airpower. The debate grew so heated at one point that Labor Opposition Member Michael Harish jumped from his seat and yelled at Begin...
...Poppea, in the arms of the notorious Emperor Nero. The Emperor finds time to dally with his male friend Lucano when Poppea or his Empress Ottavia is not around. Seneca, Nero's wise old mentor, advises him against marriage to Poppea and, for his counsel, is forced to commit suicide. Ottavia, whose crime is wanting to keep her husband and her throne, is exiled-set adrift alone at sea. Meanwhile, Ottone, who has tried to murder Poppea in her sleep, is banished. When Poppea finally marries Nero and is crowned Empress of Rome, vice has triumphed over virtue...