Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What price must society pay for equality? Will someone have to die at the hands of a 105-lb. firewoman before standards are once again based on job requirements rather than on the applicant's potential? If your life or mine was in danger, I daresay we would desire the best physically equipped person available, not someone who was hired by virtue of a quota system. Paul F. Lupica East Windsor...
...Boeing 707 taxied to a stop at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport, and Alexander Haig stepped wearily out into the glow of television lights. The Secretary of State was nearing the end of an arduous diplomatic shuttle that had taken him some 30,000 miles and was in serious danger of stalling. As he prepared to negotiate yet again, he sounded a familiar theme: "It is clear tonight that the task will not be easy, but what is in play is so important that everyone has to apply all the strength possible to achieve a political accord." What...
Although Reagan called on the Soviets to "butt out," Western analysts saw little danger of the Falklands dispute ballooning into a confrontation between Washington and Moscow. The Soviets had not vetoed the U.N. Security Council's resolution condemning the Argentine invasion and, as one U.S. intelligence officer put it, "What are they going to tell the Argentines anyway?" Britain has purposely made no secret of the size and makeup of its Falklands task force, and Soviet satellites cannot locate the British submarines. Said the U.S. analyst: "We don't even know where they...
...effects of an Israeli bullet wound in his stomach. In Jerusalem, a five-year-old Arab girl was recovering from surgery after doctors removed an Israeli bullet from her brain. Elsewhere in Jerusalem, a three-year-old Israeli girl lay gravely injured with a fractured skull and was in danger of losing the sight of one eye. She had been riding in a bus when a rock thrown by an Arab demonstrator smashed through a window and struck...
When talk began of a possible invasion, Zghayar wired his wife, who was on a visit to Kuwait, to return home to Lebanon immediately with their three sons. "We Palestinians are all one family, and both in times of great joy and great danger, we believe in being together, and not separated. I have taken all three of my sons to a high point not far from here, where you can look out and see Palestine. I hold them in my arms, and tell them, 'My son, breathe deeply of that air. It is the air of your homeland...