Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Western diplomatic cables from the Afghan capital of Kabul seemed to back them up. The reports put guerrilla casualties at no more than 50 dead and several dozen injured. According to the dispatches, the rebels were in good spirits and had ample supplies, while the morale of Afghan soldiers was "very low" at the time of the attack. Medical authorities in the capital said "hundreds" of dead Soviet and Afghan soldiers were brought to Kabul two weeks ago, and spoke of a "record number" of casualties from the fighting around Khost...
...Sovereign, scheduled to arrive in the Port of Miami this week to begin service for the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, is a glittering symbol of a new Golden Age for passenger ships. In the 1950s the onset of jet travel left the * cruise industry dead in the water. But through the '80s the business has been growing at flank speed. Roughly 1.5 million North Americans took cruises in 1982; by 1987 that figure had doubled...
Director John Huston goes out in style with a simple, masterly adaptation of James Joyce' s The Dead. -- The year' s finest films...
...soon as Lynch reached the Shannon Airport on Tuesday at 10 a.m., he called one of his traders, Barry Lyden, who had arrived at Fidelity's main office in Boston before dawn. Twice the call went dead, until Lynch pleaded with the Irish operator to stay on the line because "we're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars here...
...impromptu march in Port-au-Prince last week after a memorial Mass for the more than 50 victims of last month's election-day violence. Suddenly three gunmen, by some accounts dressed in army or police uniforms, began firing into the crowd. The toll: a 25-year-old mourner dead and four seriously wounded...