Word: grave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western diplomat in Managua: "For once, the Sandinistas seem to be handling the situation in a mature and sophisticated fashion." Another explanation might be that the Nicaraguan regime was simply biding its time while the Reagan Administration's policy in Central America teetered on the verge of a grave setback...
...votes to Shamir's 56%. Most political observers had expected Sharon to win a mere 10% to 15%. It was a remarkable comeback for a man who was forced to resign as Defense Minister last year after the government-appointed Kahan commission concluded that he had made "a grave mistake when he ignored the danger of acts of revenge and bloodshed" by Lebanese Phalangists against Arab civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps outside Beirut in September 1982. Might Sharon's strong showing last week put him in a position to regain his old defense...
Mitterrand flew first to Atlanta to place a wreath on the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. and meet with his widow. He charmed Mayor Andrew Young by claiming that when he read about the Deep South as a youth, Louis Armstrong's version of Georgia on My Mind kept running through his head...
Soon a different story emerged. Following a clandestine meeting of its Central Committee last December, the F.P.L. accused its deceased founder of "grave political, ideological and moral deformations," and of ordering Anaya Monies' murder. As a sign of its new, "moderate" direction, it named as Cayetano Carpio's successor Leonel González, 39, a former schoolteacher whose revolutionary specialty is underground organizing. The F.P.L. also acknowledged the breakaway of a more violence-prone splinter faction, the Salvador Cayetano Carpio Revolutionary Workers' Movement...
...battle of their lives. Their increased demands for political and religious autonomy in the Punjab and their use of violence to enforce those demands have made them virtual enemies of the government and the Hindus who once lived peacefully in their midst. The Sikhs have become a grave concern for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Says a senior Indian official: "It is the greatest, most volatile crisis this government has faced since the days of partition...