Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...packed vegetable market, hurried transactions are interrupted by rumors of arrests and raids. By 11 a.m., the shops are shuttered and the shabab take over, attacking and evading soldiers. Five toughs from a Palestinian gang called the Black Panthers swagger down the street only two blocks from an Israeli foot patrol. "We're running our own state here," says a young "enforcer" as he demands identification from strangers. Two days earlier, the Panthers dragged Naima Ja'ara, 35, from her house and shot her in the head for allegedly collaborating with the Israelis...
...worsened. En route to Malta, Gorbachev stopped in Rome to visit John Paul II. His momentous meeting with the Pope marked the beginning of the end of more than 70 years of antagonism between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church. The first Soviet Communist Party boss to set foot on Vatican soil, Gorbachev conferred with the Pope for an unexpectedly long 75 minutes in the library of the 16th century Apostolic Palace. Addressing John Paul II as "Your Holiness" -- no small gesture for the leader of a nation and party formally pledged to atheism -- Gorbachev promised that the Supreme...
...student said his attackers appeared to be intent on assaulting him regardless of his ability to fight back. "I'm a six-foot tall male in fairly good shape. They were looking for the next person who was coming down there, period," he said...
...ROTC's liaison, law professor Gordon Baldwin said, "the proponents of change are shooting themselves in the foot...There is no question of law here, the policy is allowed...
Cambridge zoning rules require that developers provide a certain amount of parking for every square foot they intend to build--adding up to about 50 spaces for the proposed Eliot St. building, said Gladys P. Gifford, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, a community activist group. But she added that the city waived Banker's parking requirement...