Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incriminating evidence of Iran's lawlessness consisted of nine deadly mines whose horns bristled from the deck of the crippled vessel Iran Ajr. The Iranian navy landing craft was seized off Bahrain after a surprise attack by two U.S. helicopters left five Iranian sailors dead and 26 others captive. The black weapons, mounted on wheels, pointed silent but damning accusations at the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
Pass silently over the stones of the dead...
...discomfiture over her latest trip home is suddenly dwarfed by tragedy: Theo, whose wife has left him with custody of their young son, goes off one Sunday afternoon to see his current girlfriend, a nurse who is trying to disentangle herself from their affair. Within hours, both are dead of gunshot wounds, apparently administered by Theo in a murder-suicide. This event throws the members of the Quick family, their friends and the close-knit society of Mountain City into paroxysms of confusion and self-reproach. What made Theo do it? Could he have been saved...
...peace process is stalled and may be dead even now. The Peres plan may offer the final chance to reach a pragmatic accord. Americans owe the Foreign Minister support in this difficult task...
...that the legislators at minimum may attach reservations and understandings that would have to be renegotiated with Moscow. The prospect worries Shevardnadze; he made a point last week of recalling the Soviets' "bitter experience" with the SALT II treaty, which was never ratified and which Reagan has now declared dead...