Word: ground
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Those were battles marked by violence and death. They cannot be forgotten. The blood-stained ground on which civil rights workers walked must never be cleansed. If it fades from memory, our nation will find itself fulfilling George Santayana's prophecy of having to repeat history because we ignored it. In celebrating King's victories, we keep the past alive and by so doing educate our nation about the high cost of freedom...
Escudero Aponte, used a Sterno-like fuel to torch new furniture stacked in the hotel's ground-floor ballroom, according to a complaint filed by the FBI in U.S. District Court...
...Arab, the waterway that separates the southern parts of the two countries. The Iranians briefly captured the islands, but were forced to retreat after Iraq counterattacked with helicopter gunships, heavy artillery, missiles and rockets. Visiting the battlefield later, journalists saw the bodies of hundreds of Iranian soldiers on the ground or in the swampy waters to the east of the Iraqi port city of Basra. The Iraqis' claim that 32,000 Iranians were killed in the fighting was undoubtedly exaggerated. But Lieut. General Mahir Abdel Rashid of the Iraqi Third Army Corps may have accurately described the engagement...
...fact 84% of Washington voters took that view in a referendum last November. A key reason: Hanford is only five miles from the Columbia River, so any leakage might find its way downstream to Portland. Opponents of the plan charge that Washington is basing its choice on political grounds. The U.S. already owns the 570-sq.- mi. Hanford site, and most of the local citizens favor the nuclear industry as the basis for their jobs. Even this traditional view is changing, however. It was recently learned that dangerous quantities of iodine gases had leaked from the Hanford reactors during...
...group is urging that Reagan both announce he is moving toward early deployment of his Strategic Defense Initiative and greatly increase pressure on the Marxist Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The Central American initiative would mean asking for a huge increase in U.S. aid to the contra rebels and assigning American ground troops to support the guerrillas. "That would focus public debate on something useful to the country," says one adviser...