Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More is at stake than the survival of a single species. Conservationists fear that if they cannot rally to the rescue of earth's largest land mammal, there is little hope of preventing a multitude of lesser creatures from slipping into extinction. The elephant has become emblematic of the wild and the struggle to preserve...
Peruvian officials fear Shining Path ranks will expand swiftly if the government succeeds in reducing the cocaine trade without providing alternate sources of income to peasants...
Eppelmann, speaking in an interview with RIAS radio of West Berlin, said yesterday: "If the state does not send a clear signal soon and talk with the people about their wishes and needs, an escalation is possible. There is fear in the GDR [East Germany] that violence could soon reign...
...written," protested one, "that the U.S. should be the only destination of Soviets who want to emigrate." If embassy officials are defensive about the new procedures, they are also firm. To qualify as refugees, Soviets, like all other applicants, must prove that they have a "well-grounded fear" of persecution; those who succeed get an average of $7,500 in U.S. Government...
...Again in 1984, Rather narrated a segment claiming to depict 4,000 Afghans fleeing their villages near Kabul out of fear of Soviet attacks. Etabari told the Post that the film was shot miles away at the Afghan-Pakistani border...