Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time Sein Lwin fell, the official death toll in the disturbances had risen to 98, though foreign diplomats in Rangoon placed the figure at several times that number. Unofficial estimates held that more than 1,000 protesters had been killed by security forces and that many thousands more had suffered injuries...
Soldiers slid the flag-draped coffins of Zia, Raphel and 28 others onto planes bound for Islamabad and other Pakistani cities where relatives of the victims were waiting. The government originally put the death toll...
...that the Gospel of Luke is the oldest and closest to Jesus' original words, whereas most conventional scholarship gives that distinction to Mark. Unlike most experts, they also believe that Jesus' sayings and actions were first recorded -- in a now lost Hebrew document -- within a few years of his death on the Cross, not put down by his followers decades later...
While the Jewish members of the school do not accept Jesus as the Messiah, they do believe that the man from Galilee might well have seen himself in that light. In fact, a number of lesser religious figures of Jesus' era also believed this about themselves. As for Jesus' death, Flusser interprets it within a motif of martyrdom that stemmed from the Maccabees, rather than from the belief that the Crucifixion would take away the sins of the world. "I am sure," says Flusser, "that there were many Jews, when Jesus was crucified, who believed this innocent victim of Roman...
...Belfast. Half an hour later in West Belfast, two gunmen dragged an off-duty Ulster Defense Regiment lance corporal from a supermarket and, as his wife and two-year-old daughter looked on, shot him dead. The next morning a part-time private in the U.D.R. was shot to death 40 miles west of Belfast. Two men were gunned down in nearby County Fermanagh when an I.R.A. squad let loose with 150 rounds at close range. Finally, an I.R.A. bomb injured three soldiers and a civilian in a British army barracks in West Germany...