Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After killing most of the leaders, Turkish soldiers evacuated rural Armenian villages, telling the men they had to serve in the army and then working them to death in forced labor camps, Samuelian said. The women and children were then marched into the Syrian desert, where most of them died, he added...
...Chauncy St. resident was arrested at his home at about I a.m. yesterday after he allegedly stabbed a pregnant woman to death in a Brookline restaurant, police said...
...constant stream of fresh disclosures, overshadowed only briefly by the death and funeral of Emperor Hirohito, has proved costly for Takeshita. Last week the popularity rating of the Takeshita Cabinet hovered around 10%, a postwar low. The Prime Minister's fall from public grace comes only partly from outrage over Recruit. The Japanese also bitterly resent a new 3% national consumption tax, part of a reform package that will eventually reduce taxes. In several recent local elections, these issues have badly hurt the L.D.P., which has been in power continuously since the party's formation in 1955. No less partisan...
Only experts can guess at how many secrets of the Western allies Philby passed along to his Moscow controls, or how many British agents were sent to certain death on missions whose cover Philby had exposed. When he died last May at 76, he was honored as a hero of the Soviet Union...
...said that Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from clear that his colleagues were prepared to battle to the last with...