Word: die
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Conqueror of the British Empire, I am prepared to die in defense of the motherland, Uganda." With his habitual bombast, Uganda's murderous President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada, 55, last week tried to put the best face on his disintegrating hold on national power. It was, apparently, a futile effort. After several days of sporadic fighting, the occupation force of largely Ugandan exile troops entered the outskirts of Kampala and prepared for a final push. Though scattered fighting still continued in pockets, the invading forces were poised to take control of Uganda's capital...
...talk about coal gasification, the Federal Government hasn't yet licensed a single plant." Dark-eyed Patti Anderson of Granby, Colo.: "The population of the underdeveloped countries will double in 20 years, but they're not going to start having fewer children when three out of four die before reaching adulthood...
Once again, Folk Singer Joan Baez lent her plaintive voice to a rally in San Francisco, where her colleagues staged a "die-in," falling under the onslaught of an imagined nuclear disaster. Plants from Oregon to New York and Connecticut came under fire from the antinuclear brigade. Said a TVA official about last week's accident: "This will be just another piece of ammunition that the protesters can use. But frankly, it has a lot more substance than most of the things they...
Many speakers compared the nuclear power dilemma to the controversy surrounding the Vietnam War a decade ago. Zinn said, "The same people who brought us Vietnam and who watched people die in mines and mills are still in power...
...atomic bomb. A plant could, however, suffer a "meltdown" if it loses the water used to cool its uranium core, overheats, ruptures the core's container and releases a deadly cloud of radioactive gases. In the event of such an accident, people close to the plant would die quickly, while others, living as far as a couple of hundred miles downwind of the plant, might die later of radiation induced cancer...