Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets also tried harassment. Several times during last week's hunt, smaller Soviet vessels dashed at one of the searching U.S. ships, sometimes stopping dead in the water directly in front of it. At other times, Soviet ships would run closely parallel to the U.S. vessels, using the sounds of their engines and propellers to drown out reception from the U.S. underwater listening gear. The U.S. task force commander, Rear Admiral William A. Cockell Jr., told TIME's Tokyo bureau chief Edwin Reingold, "In some cases our ships have had to back off." When they did, their search...
...naval action last week was harshly attacked in the Soviet Union, where TV news programs showed clips of U.S. warships firing cannons, quickly followed by scenes of an anguished Arab mother clutching a dead or dying child. The TASS news agency said Moscow "resolutely condemned" the U.S. military moves. Reaction from U.S. allies, including those that have sent peace-keeping forces to Lebanon, has been mixed but generally supportive. In London, a Foreign Office spokesman said that each contingent in the multinational force must "take its own decisions about self-defense." In Italy's coalition government, Socialist Prime Minister Bettino...
...spirit" so as to "attain national unity." Translation: the next civilian government should refrain from investigating military crimes. That clumsy ploy was ridiculed into oblivion. Last April the junta tried again, publishing a "final document" in which it simply declared that those who disappeared were legally and administratively dead. Explaining that any "excesses" committed by the government were purely in the line of duty, the government did not bother even to account for individual cases. Again, the maneuver provoked national and international outrage...
Kenneth Lewis, the union local's president, insists that the workers were under no obligation to walk out. Says Lewis: "The threat of a strike is a bargaining tool. It's more meaningful than a strike itself, once the employer finds out the membership is dead serious...
...minutes, the Harvard men's soccer team played dead even with the University of Connecticut. Then the Crimson booters held fast for 45 more against a Husky onslaught, coming away with a 1-1 tie yesterday in double overtime...