Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forgotten you for four years. Now it's your turn to forget him on Nov. 6." At Texas Southern University in Houston, black students applauded long and loud when Mondale criticized Reagan's frequent references to revered Democrats. "But they have to be dead," Mondale noted. "It's got to be Roosevelt or Truman or Kennedy. They're even picking my old friend Humphrey; he's turning over in his grave. Why don't they leave our own heroes alone and honor their own-Hoover and Nixon and Agnew...
...President Reagan got a 15-minute preliminary report last week. No real dereliction is apparent, the team believes, although prudent jury-rigged security measures, like a sand-filled dump-truck blockade, might have prevented the attack. "In hindsight," says Under Secretary of State for Management Ronald Spiers, "they are dead right. But that's a degree of micromanagement you cannot conduct from Washington...
Rachael Sarfatti was pronounced dead at about 8:30 p.m. at Mt. Auburn Hospital, police officials said. She was the wife of Gad Sarfatti, a professor of Hebrew at Bar Ilan University in Israel spending the year in Cambridge...
When erstwhile Screen Idol N.T. Rama Rao, 61, was dismissed as chief minister of India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh last month, an eruption of protests left 53 dead and hundreds injured. With national elections due to be held by mid-January, many Indians saw his ouster as another in a string of attempts by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to bring down state governments run by her opponents. Although Mrs. Gandhi denied any role in the removal of Rama Rao, the rising opposition has clearly been damaging to her Congress (I) Party. Last week the state governor...
...progress is Quinn's Book, another novel in the Albany cycle. Kennedy is increasing his nonwriting stake in the city as well. He recently bought the downtown rooming house where Legs Diamond was shot dead...