Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Change of Address. Whether the 57-year-old Premier, who is in remarkably good shape after his near-fatal stroke, can handle his political problems as astutely as his military ones is another question. Criticism from the middle class, civil servants, students and intellectuals has not on the whole been directed against him personally. But his response has been harsh. He fired First Vice Premier In Tam and stripped him of his brigadier general's rank. In Tam is widely respected as an incorruptible politician, but Lon Nol apparently feared that he would be an eventual rival...
...expose and carve away the clutter-emotion, prejudice, unexamined tenets of historical faith-that can get in the way of decision making. If the decision is not always the best, then at least a well-reasoned opinion gives judges, lawyers and judicial scholars a chance to spy out its fatal inconsistencies...
...Mancusi." At 9:05 a.m., a convict shouted down the corridor through a mega phone that all hostages would be killed if state troopers tried to storm the compound. Replied Oswald's chief assistant, Walter Dunbar: "Release the prisoners now. Then the commissioner will meet with you." The fatal one-word reply was "Negative...
...Fatal Mistake. The bizarre string of events that led to the general's downfall began one afternoon late last month when he picked up his phone and dialed his guards commander. Somehow the wires got crossed, and Amri broke into a conversation between Mohsen Harazi, who owned a small camera shop in the capital, San'a, and a friend. Thinking that he was talking to his military subordinate, Amri identified himself as the Premier. Harazi, thinking that his friend was playing a joke, laughed. One thing led to another, and soon the two were trading insults...
Amri, enraged by such impertinence, demanded identification, and Harazi made the fatal mistake of giving his name and address. Minutes later, soldiers poured into his shop and dragged him to general military headquarters. There, as Amri watched, guardsmen beat him with iron rods. Harazi pleaded for mercy to no avail. When the guardsmen refused Amri's order to kill Harazi, said reports from San'a, the Premier picked up a gun himself and shot the shopkeeper in the head...