Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers and Nixon's coming. We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming. Four dead in Ohio...
...National Guard, after lobbing tear gas at students and boxing them into the lot, retreated up a neighboring hill. Suddenly the Guard turned around and opened fire. A 20-year-old on her way to class, a ROTC cadet, a protester, and another headed for class--all fell dead...
...even in this Spielberg war, wisdom brings bitter lessons. It teaches Jim that he may -- must -- filch food from the dying and take shoes from the dead. When P-51s zoom above him, the plane-crazy boy crash-dives into delirium; his dreams have singed him by flying too close, poisoned him with their oil and cordite. Alone with an ailing woman (Miranda Richardson), who stokes his first erotic fantasies, Jim looks up and sees the atomic blast over Hiroshima as a blazing crystal vision. Even at the end, when a plane drops bundles of Spam and Luckies like...
...there is growing hope on both sides for productive negotiations on the far more important Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) treaty, which would cut in half the number of U.S. and Soviet long-range nuclear weapons. Main reason: the Soviets have backed away from the demand for a dead stop in the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) program that sank the Reykjavik summit. "They have become much more ambiguous," reports a senior U.S. official. "They seldom mention SDI at all; instead they talk about strengthening the ((1972)) ABM treaty. Now, it may be that their real...
...Crimes Commission, a 17- nation panel formed in 1943 to compile lists of suspected war criminals. By the time the records were handed over to the U.N. in 1948, the group had collected information on 36,800 people. Though most of those cataloged are known to be dead, others are not. Among the more famous listed criminals thought to be still alive are Alois Brunner, a deputy to Adolf Eichmann who is ! in Syria, and Dr. Hans Wilhelm Konig, an aide to Josef Mengele believed to be in Sweden...