Word: fate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father was convicted of child abuse in 1984 and paroled from prison after less than two years. Last week, in a ruling that stunned children's rights advocates around the country, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 to absolve Winnebago County of constitutional responsibility for Joshua's fate...
...Nunn had heard enough about Tower. In a closed meeting on Thursday afternoon, he proposed that the committee meet publicly that night, deliver any explanations it wished on how the members had made up their minds, then cast their votes. All along, Tower's fate in the committee had depended on Nunn's own decision. As the Senators debated Tower's strengths and frailties during the three-hour executive session, it was clear that Nunn would not accept the nominee...
Ever since the bodies of more than 4,000 Polish officers were found in 1943 in the Katyn forest, near the Soviet city of Smolensk, their fate has been a disturbing blank spot in Polish history. Moscow has maintained that the cold- blooded killings were carried out by the Nazis after they invaded the U.S.S.R. in 1941. But Poles have long suspected that the officers were executed and buried in mass graves by Soviet forces...
Yesterday some 50 students gathered at Bok's Mass Hall office to protest apartheid. That rally marked the end of a 24-hour fast by more than 500 participants that sought to publicize the fate of political prisoners in South Africa...
...TRAFFIC and Wildlife Conservation International, envisions a triage approach. The group plans to concentrate its resources on about 40 populations that have the best chance of being guarded from poachers. That strategy would focus on saving about 250,000 elephants and would reluctantly leave another 500,000 to their fate...