Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Habre's victory was assured when Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi snubbed Goukouni's last-ditch plea for assistance. In 1980 Gaddafi dispatched 4,000 troops to N'Djamena to salvage Goukouni's regime. One year later, Goukouni asked Gaddafi to withdraw his forces in favor of a three-nation peacekeeping contingent sent by the Organization of African Unity. Gaddafi assented, apparently because he will begin a one-year stint as chairman of the O.A.U. in August and did not wish to give his peers any pretext to boycott his anointment...