Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flag-Draped Coffins. The killing of the ambassador, the fourth U.S. envoy to have died at the hands of assassins in the past eight years (see box), triggered an order by President Gerald Ford to evacuate any U.S. citizen from Lebanon who wished to leave. With Beirut airport closed, the mode would be a convoy to Damascus, about 90 miles away via back roads, presumably under the protection of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the first phase of the trip, the Syrian army, which has occupied much of Lebanon, over the second stage. An 18-vehicle trial run organized...
...much to enjoy in Soweto. Into a 35-sq.-mi. area are packed perhaps a million people−650,000 by official count−and life is hard and bleak. Soweto is Johannesburg's Harlem, a black ghetto that has sprawled into the country's fourth largest city...
...Fourth, black audiences in particular responded to this Georgian. More than most whites, they were moved by his appeals for "love" and "decency." Almost everywhere, blacks voted for Carter by overwhelming margins. Without them, he would not have turned back Wallace in Florida, or Udall in Wisconsin and Michigan...
Rosovsky announced his decision to okay the project on Monday. That night, the Cambridge City Council voted to hold a hearing on the proposed lab, which is slated to be on the fourth floor of the Biological Laboratories with the next to highest safety precautions for research facilities...
...freshman year. He was a local boy, born and raised in the Boston area, and an outstanding pre-medical student. I did not see much of him during my sophomore year (his junior year). In fact, when I found him sitting in the middle of the hallway on the fourth floor of Barnard Hall at 6:30 a.m. one morning during my junior year, it was the first time I had seen him in at least eight months...