Word: graving
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...Ayatullah. Several dozen Iraqis refused. They were led away, and their hands were tied behind their backs. As regular army officers watched in disbelief, an earthmover dug a large ditch. After the prisoners had been placed along the edge, the guards opened fire. The bodies tumbled into the waiting grave...
...ever known precisely. Many of the victims, who also included Lebanese residents of the camps, lay buried in a hastily bulldozed site that was dug by the killers near the Shatila entrance as they finished up their murderous spree. Rescue workers decided against reopening the grave. Other victims presumably still remain in houses that were dynamited in a crude attempt to cover up the extent of the atrocity...
...Palme, 55, crisscrossed the globe as a spokesman for disarmament groups and a mediator in the Iran-Iraq war. This summer, however, he reverted to his familiar role of politician, as he sought to avenge successive defeats that have deprived his Social Democratic Party from governing the cradle-to-grave welfare society that it built during 44 years in power...
...tense appearance at Bonn's spacious, glass-enclosed parliament building, a grave-looking Chancellor went before the Bundestag to announce the breakup of the coalition and to call for new elections. Said Schmidt: "In the interest of our country, in the interest of our parliamentary democracy, I cannot and will not stand by and watch the effectiveness and standing of the government being wrecked." Conceding that his party "could lose some feathers" in an election, he declared, "I am convinced that the electorate will understand and prefer this course...
When it will help your own country for your adversary to know your settled intentions, you should find effective ways of making sure that he does, and a secret assurance is justified when a) you can keep your word, and b) no other course can avoid grave damage to your country's legitimate interests...