Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PAUL KIRK, the new Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), told a packed Forum at the Harvard Institute of Politics that we have already entered the post-Reagan era, he demonstrated a naivete that could prove fatal for the Democratic Party. Kirk reassured us that the "Conservative realignment" Democrats feared has not materialized and that all the party has to do to regain power is to wait for the political pendulum to swing back its way. With this kind of attitude among Democratic leaders, they are going to be waiting a long time...
...Milhem, former mayor of the Israeli-occupied West Bank village of Halhul, suddenly balked. After consultation, the pair refused to sign a declaration that acknowledged Israel's right to exist. Howe called the cancellation a "disappointment and a setback," but added, "We must not allow it to be a fatal one." The problem for the P.L.O. was compounded on Tuesday when Jordan's King Hussein announced his support for the British decision to call | off the meeting. Said Hussein: "We'll have to see what went wrong and how it can be corrected...
...Between 1979 and 1983, the town lost 24 men to lung cancer; 15 such deaths would be expected in a town with Holbrook's age distribution and population. During the same period, Holbrook men were dying of bladder cancer at a rate more than three times the average, and fatal uterine, cervical and ovarian cancers occurred at more than twice the normal rate...
...those plot twists that any screenwriter would have rejected as too improbable to consider, in the last weeks of his life Hudson became perhaps the most famous homosexual in the world, a man whose fatal illness belatedly focused public attention on the disease that killed him. If he had succumbed to a heart attack, his death would probably have occasioned only a brief notice; because he was the most celebrated known victim of AIDS, it became a significant event...
...many, the most moving moment occurred when Actor Burt Lancaster read a telegram from Rock Hudson, the veteran movie and TV star who acknowledged last July that he had been stricken with the illness, which is almost invariably fatal. Hudson's disclosure sent shock waves through the West Coast movie establishment. More than anything else, it accounted for the sellout attendance at last week's $250-to-$500-a-plate dinner, raising an estimated $1.2 million for AIDS Project Los Angeles, a group that provides assistance to victims of the disease. Too sick to attend, Hudson referred poignantly...