Word: dead
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...defenses will, if pursued, violate the 1972 ABM treaty; the Soviets are developing two new types of ICBMs, while SALT II permits only one per side. Thus the arms-control constraints of the past are further unraveling at a time when the quest for new agreements is at a dead...
...time of the first NSC meeting devoted to START, in April 1982, the State Department's idea of a straightforward trade-off between the MX and the SS-18 was dead, and the advocates of a low throw-weight ceiling seemed to have the upper hand. On the eve of the meeting, Perle circulated a paper that criticized State for advocating an approach that offered "the appearance but not the reality of significant limits on Soviet strategic power ... and [that] would drive the Administration to a repetition of past mistakes...
...latest casualty figures: 582 dead and 753 wounded. Among the dead, shot through the right temple according to one general on the scene, was Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the fanatical leader of the extremists...
...Beirut, tragedy and normality have come to seem almost interchangeable. Last Monday, rockets and artillery fire began raining down upon both Christian and Muslim residential areas, leaving at least 100 people dead. One day later, representatives of both groups gave a vote of confidence in parliament for the six-week-old government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami...
...down the court, it hardly appears to matter at all. This was the situation for most of the first four games of the seven-game series, when overtime victories squeezed out by Boston in Games 2 and 4 offset but scarcely equaled the spectacle of Los Angeles on the dead...