Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only a prerogative of the Baader-Meinhof group." It went on to say that Moro's body could be found in a tiny lake high in the Apennine mountains 70 miles northeast of Rome. Helicopters carrying frogmen and Alpine troops converged on the mountainside. The lake, virtually unreachable except by sophisticated mountaineers, was nearly frozen solid. After two days of searching, a body was found; it turned out to be that of a local shepherd who had apparently drowned himself...
Convinced that nobody except Mugabe has anything to lose from a round-table conference, American and British officials are pressing ahead with the plan for calling such a meeting within the next three months. One proposed site: Victoria Falls, with sessions alternating between the Rhodesian and Zambian sides of the magnificent border. Though they may be indulging in a bit of wishful thinking, Western officials suspect that the negotiating process would inevitably tend to separate the pragmatic Nkomo from the zealous Mugabe, and thus pave the way for a broader Rhodesian consensus...
...jetliner was chartered, flew to Murmansk and brought out to Helsinki the bodies of the two passengers who died in the incident and the surviving crew and passengers, except for the ill-fated flight's captain and navigator. Those two the Russians detained for further questioning on why the plane had ventured so far off course and into Soviet airspace. The Kola Peninsula is a highly sensitive military area for the Soviet Union. Not only is Murmansk the home port for Russia's northern fleet, but there are an estimated 900,000 soldiers and airmen based...
...court records in a dusty attic of Philadelphia's city hall. In addition to victims, the pair interviewed 100 lawyers, 35 judges and ten detectives, including one who expressed the feeling of many of his colleagues that no one in the legal system cared about avenging the victim except the cops on the case. Says Neumann: "We sympathized, but it was clear that this was illegal and a violation of the Constitution...
...particularly fun watching Giles deal with new American expressions or traditions," Zito says, adding, "Nothing fazes him except eating a double hamburger with your hands." Zito relates an "amusing" story about the time Havergal watched some members of the cast dribble ketchup over themselves. You had to be there...