Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November 1978 the superior firepower of the Soviet-backed government began to tell. Whole blocks of houses had been destroyed, the fields lay fallow and 220 residents were dead. When word spread that an overpowering government assault was imminent, the villagers called a traditional council. "We decided that we all had to leave that very night and take our families to Pakistan," remembers Amin Jan, now a mujahedin commander...
What should have looked ridiculous turned out to be strange. What should have been moving was eerie. What should have felt impressive was irritating; irritating impressive; dead alive, and vice versa. From Saturday on, nothing came off quite as a visitor expected. Dallas tooted and bubbled, awaiting the arrival of him whose political philosophy justified Dallas' existence. Yet it seemed that Ronald Reagan would enhance Dallas no more than Dallas would enhance him, and that he was coming to confer his blessing on the place he wished America...
...hunger strike that made news around the world. Soviet officials then accused Bonner of conspiring with U.S. diplomats to conduct an anti-Soviet campaign in the West. Meanwhile, Western statesmen, including President Reagan, persistently expressed concern about Sakharov's condition. Rumors that Sakharov was dangerously ill, and even dead, kept the story in the headlines...
...Claiborne case proved, convictions can rarely be won on the basis of such testimony. "Corroboration is the key," says Stephen Trott, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division. "Without corroboration, you're probably dead in the water." In the De Lorean case, the prosecution thought it had plenty of corroboration: dozens of audio-and videotapes in which the industrialist seemed to agree to invest in a 220-lb. cocaine deal. But the jurors indicated in interviews after the acquittal that they regarded the tapes as inconclusive; they were more concerned about the credibility of the witnesses...
...doesn't tell the President everything. But she's not afraid to tell Mike anything. They're like crossed fingers." Together they stand ready to fight and bleed for their man, the President. "If those two turn against you," says a close colleague, "you're dead around here...