Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes, however, even Khomeini gets caught in his own net. Iranian mines have now become the greatest single threat to shipping in the region, a fact that was underscored by the fate that befell the Texaco Caribbean last week. But mines are indiscriminate weapons, and in a sense Iran has mined itself as well. After all, the Texaco Caribbean was loaded with Iranian...
...North Carolina, where erosion this year alone has cut into beachfront property up to 60 ft. in places, the venerable Cape Hatteras lighthouse is in peril of the encroaching sea. Soon it must either be moved or surrounded by a wall. Otherwise, it is likely to suffer the fate of the Morris Island light, near Charleston, S.C. Once on solid land, it now stands a quarter of a mile offshore...
...revived public interest in the fate of the contras, stimulated by North's impassioned oratory, may give Congress second thoughts about again curtailing support for the rebels. This battle, too, could go either way, and Reagan will not be irrelevant to its outcome...
...hard fate at the best of times, and the best of times have been rare. In imperial Rome, orphans were commonly sold into slavery or simply killed off. Although the Roman Catholic Church forbade infanticide, Pope Innocent III was dismayed by the number of children's bodies he saw floating in the Tiber. With the coming of the Industrial Revolution, one chronicler reported that orphans "swarmed the streets like locusts," and locusts do not live very long either...
...conduct negotiations both delicate and possibly dangerous; the task falls to Clinton's adjutant, Major John Andre. Arnold's treason is a familiar story, but British Journalist Anthony Bailey retells it from an intriguing angle. Here is the brave but unlucky major, captured, his mission exposed, awaiting his fate and talking to pass the time. He asks his American guards to consider the principles that governed his behavior: "It seems to me that it is a proper object in war, to take advantage of a rebel officer's desire to return to his proper allegiance, don't you think...