Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tired of spotting us, interest rates will shoot up, and we'll have a recession; or, as the trade deficit narrows, domestic and export demand will combine to create inflation; or, the burning of Brazilian rain forests will deprive the world of oxygen, and we'll all choke to death; etc. But the sky hasn't fallen. And trying to persuade people it's going to fall any minute is probably not the best way to build a consensus on the next step...
Burmese authorities claimed that 144 people were killed during the first three days, but the true death total probably surpassed 500. Horrified at the carnage, U.S. Ambassador Burton Levin called upon the Saw Maung regime to condemn the killing of protesters by its soldiers. The ambassadors of Great Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and West Germany remonstrated "in the strongest terms" with the Burmese government for its "defiance of respect for human rights...
...mutiny spread and crowds plundered his house last week, Romain sought refuge inside the embassy of the Dominican Republic. Others were not so lucky. Some Macoutes were stoned to death. Several who participated in the murder last year of former presidential candidate Yves Volel were seized by an enraged crowd, dragged to the St. Jean Bosco Church, savagely beaten, then set on fire. At least twelve Macoutes last week fell victim to the selective new dechoukage. Bowing to pressures from the junior officers, Haiti's new, self- declared President, Brigadier General Prosper Avril, replaced all the top military commanders...
...real distinction in Joel Oliansky's script, as in Eastwood's direction, lies mostly in its refusals. Focusing on the last three months of Parker's life, starting with a suicide attempt and ending with his sweet- smiling death as he watched a TV variety show, it flashes forward and back within this period, as well as through times past, jaggedly riffing the contradictory themes of amiable self-destruction in life and fierce self- transcendence in art, making no attempt to resolve the mystery or the irony of their presence in the same human composition...
...Khartoum, the capital, sewage-contaminated floodwater swept through squatters' camps, destroying thousands of homes. Farther north, whole villages were submerged. In the famine-stricken south, roads and rail lines were swamped, preventing relief shipments from getting through. According to aid officials, more than a hundred people starve to death every day. Many more are so weak from hunger they can barely crawl...