Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibly no such group exists at all, except as a fiction to dress up a kidnaping for private gain. But the impact on the nation was none the less. Murphy was returned unharmed after 49 hours and two of his suspected kidnapers were promptly found and arrested, but the fate of Patricia Hearst remained agonizingly uncertain...
...giant slalom on Friday. John Macomber of Dartmouth won the race, helping his team to an overall Carnival win. Two Middlebury freshmen swept second and third, just a tick of the timer ahead of Harvard alpine captain Ben Steele. The old lady was at least as respected as fate, so course setter Howard Kelton bypassed the dropoff which led to the NCAA accident last year, but there was no ice to worry the racers this time anyway. The old lady teased everyone with a fabulous 8-inch snowfall of white powder two days before the Carnival, then come race...
...passages in Gulag about the Russian P.O.W.s are the first accounts of their tragic fate to come out of the Soviet Union. Soviet authorities have used these chapters to portray the author as a Nazi traitor. Most of the official attacks on the book have included falsified quotations purporting to show that Solzhenitsyn called General Vlasov a "hero" and "mocked the sacrifices made by the Soviet people during...
...older, more bitter bone of contention is the fate of the Kurds, the nomadic people who inhabit a mountainous region that includes parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. The Kurdish tribes have long sought nationhood but are divided politically between left-and right-wing elements, which are supported respectively by Iraq and Iran-each of which accused the other of trying to subvert its native Kurdish leadership...
...fend off a similar fate, many magazine publishers now face a bleak future of radical cost cutting...