Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sizable percentage of the Israeli air force. This estimate, said the report, ignored the Egyptians' modern, Soviet-supplied missiles, which substantially neutralized the Israeli air force. Even when the intelligence chiefs belatedly concluded on Oct. 6 that an attack was imminent, they misjudged the time by a fatal four hours...
...quiet, relatively un-polluting, and in theory can be as much as $500 a year cheaper to operate than conventional gasoline-burners. They also are generally heavier, slower and, most important, can run only 50 miles or so before they must be recharged. So far, those drawbacks have been fatal to the development of any large market. Since the early 1900s, the electric vehicle has been limited to such specialty uses as the beetle-like golf carts that purr around the nation's fairways. Now that recent gasoline shortages have forced Americans to take a second look at their...
...Fatal Mistake. But Amin's bloody purges of enemies real and imagined claimed at least 20,000 lives-and perhaps as many as 90,000-and finally convinced the Lugbaras that their turn as targets was bound to come. Sure enough, Lugbara soldiers and officers started disappearing from barracks last year and dozens of others were slapped into the infamous Makindye prison outside Kampala on conspiracy charges. Last month the bullet-riddled body of Lieut. Colonel Michael Ondoga, who as Foreign Minister was the highest-ranking Lugbara in the government, was found floating in the Nile...
...soldiers rolled up to the headquarters of the Malire mechanized battalion in Kampala, commandeered a tank, blasted down the door and looted the armory. But instead of moving immediately to secure strong points in the capital, they made instead for Makindye prison to free Lugbara colleagues. It was a fatal mistake. Amin rounded up loyal troops and counterattacked. Arube was surprised by pro-Amin soldiers, who shot and killed...
...Rocky Mountain fresh air and the Andrews Sisters, Wonder has managed the considerable task of establishing himself as both a hot commercial property and an authentic voice. Being black, blind and up from poverty entitles him, of course, to say that he has been there and back. A near-fatal auto accident outside Winston-Salem, N.C., last August has threatened to turn saga into legend. Stevie was riding in the front seat of his car when a log tore loose from a truck, crashed through the windshield and struck him in the forehead. He was pried from the wreck bloody...