Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lidiya, 53, a neatly dressed schoolteacher in a fluffy white hat and cream- colored coat: "Yes, Gorbachev is young, but then a teacher came into the staff room last week who was one month younger than Gorbachev and dropped dead of a heart attack in front of my eyes. Who would have expected that? So we can't say how long Gorbachev will last. He is a man to be admired, an intelligent man and a lawyer to boot, so he should bring back a little order. On top of that, he is an economist, or so the papers...
...days earlier. It was a performance full of pathos. He clutched the back of a chair so tightly that he could not reach out for a bouquet of flowers and fumbled again as he put on his spectacles to breathlessly read a brief text. Two weeks later he was dead...
...generals killed during the campaign. The Prince greeted his followers and conferred quietly with the general's widow. "The Vietnamese victory appears to be very impressive," he later conceded. "They have attacked all of the resistance bases. But the truth is that the coalition forces are far from dead. We have lost our biggest stronghold, but we have villages that we control." Western observers estimate that nearly 50,000 Khmer guerrillas have been driven deeper into the interior of Kampuchea. Said Sihanouk: "We will see if the Vietnamese can maintain themselves at our stronghold...
...attempt on the Pontiff." It was Celik, according to Agca, who purchased four Browning 9-mm automatic pistols in Vienna, including the one Agca was to use to shoot the Pope. Since the attempt on Pope John Paul's life, Celik has been variously reported to be dead, secluded in Bulgaria or prospering in Latin America with a face altered by plastic surgery...
...least 700 enemy soldiers, charged ^ that the defending Iraqi troops had again used poison gas; the accusation could not be confirmed independently. (Most authorities agree that Iraqi forces used chemical weapons early last year in an effort to halt an Iranian advance.) Baghdad broadcast TV footage showing hundreds of dead Iranian troops in the battle zone. Even so, the Iranians did not mount the human-wave assault the Iraqis had been expecting for months, possibly because the latest offensive had limited objectives: to strengthen Iranian positions in the marshlands and threaten Iraq's highway link between Baghdad and Basra...