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...DELOREAN's Belfast-based company which was in desperate need of financing. But just hours before the arrest, the British government, which had poured $160 million into the sports car venture, announced that it would permanently close the assembly plant in Northern Ireland, So DELOREAN's crazed, last ditch effort to save his firm would not have succeeded, even had he not been caught...
...assembled a group of Iraqi prisoners in front of pictures of Khomeini and ordered them to chant slogans praising the Ayatullah. Several dozen Iraqis refused. They were led away, and their hands were tied behind their backs. As regular army officers watched in disbelief, an earthmover dug a large ditch. After the prisoners had been placed along the edge, the guards opened fire. The bodies tumbled into the waiting grave...
Most suicide attempts are, in fact, not so much attempts to die as last-ditch cries for help. French psychiatrist and suicide specialist Jean Pierre Soubrier estimates that nine out of 10 people trying to commit suicide don't really want to succeed. The prevalence of "suicidal fantasies" which never come to completion is also common knowledge. Both syndromes, of course, could be radically and tragically altered by access to 50 painless "cocktails" guaranteeing a gentle death...
Four minutes before the last-ditch drive fell short, Harvard had trailed the Cadets, 17-7. But after traveling from his own seven to the Army 25 in eight plays, allard connected with split end Wally Rutecki, who went in for the score from the one-yard line...
Smeal's announcement came six days before the deadline for passage. The amendment had been approved by 35 states, three short of ratification. No state had voted for the amendment since Indiana in 1977. ERA supporters concentrated their last-ditch efforts in Florida and Illinois. Passage by these states, they reasoned, might lead Oklahoma or North Carolina to reconsider their earlier decisions and push ERA over the top. Florida's house of representatives voted to ratify the amendment last week, but the state senate, which had rejected the amendment four times before, knocked it down once more...