Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine-gun fire. It seems a tribal leader, a former rebel who is now a general in the Afghan army, took exception when security troops refused to let his armed bodyguards past a checkpoint not far from the National Assembly meeting hall. The ensuing fire fight left eleven dead and the general nursing wounds in a hospital...
...taken almost entirely out of the fighting by the Stingers. They flew only a few sorties under cover of night, when Stingers are difficult to aim. Said mujahedin Leader Massood Khalili of the helicopters' decline: "For nine years the dragon ruled the skies over Afghanistan. Now the dragon is dead...
Writer Larry Donner (Billy Crystal) involuntarily screams "Slut!" whenever anyone mentions his ex-wife Margaret (Kate Mulgrew). She stole his manuscript and is gleefully living off the fame and luxury the book's acclaim earned her. Donner loudly proclaims to anyone who will listen that he wants her dead. At the same time, he suffers from a writer's block so intense that he is unable to finish even the first sentence of his novel or make love to his girl-friend Beth, played with pretty, intelligent understatement by Kim Griest...
Previously it had been thought that 55 percent of the city's AIDS dead were homosexual men and 31 percent I.V. drug users. Under the revised statistics, it turns out that 53 percent were I.V. drug users and only 38 percent of gay men. Only in San Francisco do the majority of AIDS cases involve homosexuals. If they don't know by now what they have to do to stay alive, nothing anyone can say is likely to help. And condoms aren't of much use on dirty needles...
Nixon damned the dead, by saying, "When dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy." But the students killed weren't pitching stones, and three weren't even protesting. They were just passing through. If it were any other day, they might have walked right past it without noticing it was there, as I first...