Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Princess Grace of Monaco died last summer in an auto crash, her brother John B. Kelly Jr., 55, led the members of their prominent Philadelphia family at the funeral. Last week Kelly was shot by a mugger near a gas station in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The onetime Olympic oarsman, in town to give a rowing demonstration, was making a call from a phone booth when he was approached by a man with a small-caliber revolver who demanded money. Kelly tried to push him away, and the man shot him in the thigh. Kelly's doctors...
...dangers associated with the project are expected to be minimized by conducting the experiments in secure laboratories, originally designed for use in germ-warfare testing at Fort Detrick in Frederick. Md Additionally, the strain of E. coli being used in the research is a special breed which does not survive well outside a laboratory...
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...dial a Miami number for information about an upcoming meeting on U.S. soil of the Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense (F.D.N.), a coalition of Nicaraguan exile groups that are opposed to the leftist Sandinista regime in Managua. When leaders of the F.D.N. showed up at a Fort Lauderdale resort hotel last week, the conclave turned out to be about as clandestine as a charity clambake. The real purpose of the get-together: to spruce up the F.D.N.'s public image in a bid to widen its base of support in the U.S. and Central America...
...EXECUTION of Charles Brooks Jr. in Texas last week raises two separate, yet equally disturbing questions whose implications go well beyond the case in question. Brooks was convicted of shooting a Fort Worth car mechanic and sentenced to death, even though his co-defendant received a prison term of 40 years and it remains unclear which of the two pulled the trigger. In addition, the way Brooks was put to death--by injection--has caused a careful scrutiny of medical ethics by those who believe a doctor should preserve and not take lives...