Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constitutional reform, if not necessarily on the opposition's terms. On the matter of martial law, which the government has hinted it might invoke, Sigur was unequivocal. "Our position on that is crystal clear," he said. "We oppose martial law, and would hate to see anything like that happen." Back in Washington, Sigur briefed President Reagan on his findings Friday afternoon and, at a later press conference, declared that the U.S. felt "this is no time for intransigence" on the part of the Seoul government...
...records, but Goetz could not know that. Two of them carried screwdrivers because they were planning to break into some video machines, but Goetz could not know that either. He could only look at them -- he said that Canty was smiling and had "shiny eyes" -- and guess what might happen next. Having been mugged and seriously injured by three black youths in 1981, Goetz took out his .38-cal. revolver and started firing...
Like other jurors, she found herself able to disbelieve a key part of Goetz's taped confession, in which he stated he had approached Cabey and said, "You don't look so bad, here's another," and then fired again. "Did that really happen, or did he just think he said that?" Serpe wondered. "He was so agitated . . . He just wasn't being rational...
...years South Korea has been a problem waiting to happen. Chun seized power in 1980, moving into the vacuum created a year earlier by the assassination of President Park Chung Hee, his longtime mentor. The product of a modest rural background, Chun was graduated from South Korea's military academy in 1955, and is a combat veteran of the Viet Nam War. Chun consolidated his hold in a 1981 presidential election that was conducted under martial law and excluded all but token opposition candidates. Even by South Korea's standards of political legitimacy, the former army general was widely regarded...
...Forest Service plane dumped fire retardant, and a neighboring turkey farmer supplied 45,000 cu. yds. of dirt to smother the smoldering remains. "We worried, reading about some of the other tire fires," said Faye Jamison, wife of the junkyard's owner. "But we never dreamed it would happen here...