Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover the fighting remained extremely hazardous. But it was possible. Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, sent into Beirut two weeks ago, found that "you can still travel by taxi, but charges jump from $22 to as much as $200 for a nine-mile ride, depending on how dangerous an area you want to go to." Of course, the whereabouts of danger was unpredictable. On a quiet street, a small van blew up less than 50 yards ahead of Suro, sprinkling his car with glass and metal shards. What happened, he reports, was that "a Palestinian fighter attempting to remove...
Reporting a shooting war, no matter how historic or dramatic the conflict, involves less glory than sheer danger. Last week, on the first day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, TIME Photographer Barry Iverson was heading south on the coast road between Damur and Sidon when he was caught in an Israeli naval bombardment. An exploding shell wounded him severely in the leg. In shock from the loss of blood, he was taken to a Palestinian hospital, then transferred to the American University Hospital in Beirut, where his leg was surgically pieced together and encased in a steel skeleton cast...
...troops, an independent, multinational force, including U.S. soldiers, was created to patrol the Sinai desert along the Egyptian-Israeli boundary. Similarly, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wants the U.S. to be included in any future peace-keeping force that might protect the Falkland Islands. The danger of offending a superpower may be a greater deterrent than the fear of upsetting...
...with only 4.8% of the vote, the Free Democrats failed to reach the 5% needed to qualify for seats in the Hamburg legislature. While the Social Democrats have been losing followers throughout the country, especially among disenchanted youth, and mostly to the Greens, the Free Democrats are now in danger of being edged out of their traditional place as the pivotal party positioned between the country's two political heavyweights...
...course Jake goes with Magda to Berlin and finds himself in far greater peril than he had imagined. But his rite of passage is not only the literal trek from East back to West but the psychological journey toward true maturity. Experiencing the sense of danger that his father must have felt so often during his exploits, Jake comes face to face with the enemy: "I have blamed the world, my father, mother, uncle, and wife for all my weaknesses. I have wallowed in self-pity." It is time, he decides, to enter the free world...