Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last week the Pentagon announced the final toll of the Beirut bombing: 218 Marines, 18 Navy men and three Army soldiers dead...
...other debacles, including the 1970 expulsion of his commandos from Jordan and the evacuation of 6,000 to 8,000 P.L.O. fighters from Beirut last year. "He has been down before," said Amnon Cohen of Jerusalem's Hebrew University. "Until I see a photo that he's dead, I won't be absolutely sure that he's finished." Still, with or without Arafat at its helm, the P.L.O. will be a very different organization after the bloodletting around Tripoli...
...published at what is considered a more advantageous time of day; and it is, at least in terms of local coverage, the better paper Nonetheless, the economic calculations behind last week's announcement were compelling. To its owners, Missouri's oldest daily was worth more dead than alive...
...thought of a movie today about revolution in the Third World can inspire distrust. Not that revolutionaries are inherently wrong-headed or their cause unjust. Political movies, hewing as they usually do to the most simplistic line, tend to sway only the true believers and leave the skeptical dead-set in their beliefs. This is why Under Fire, the latest of this genre, a film about the Nicaraguan revolution, has to be approached with skepticism...
...months," Leroy recalls, "I was dead broke, so I found employment doing odd jobs--working in warehouses, factories, waitressing." But it was during a stint cleaning hotels in the land down under that she landed her next ticket to travel...