Word: heard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the chances of a Gorbachev trip to Harvard faded as Harvard heard indirectly that it was unlikely Gorbachev would make a trip outside D.C., according to University Marshall Richard M. Hunt...
...heard that it would be a very likely thing. We heard information that the General Secretary wanted to visit a major American university," said Hunt, adding, "Our loss is his loss...
...neck. Fellow prisoners immediately delivered both the victim, who was listed in fair condition by the local hospital, and the assailant, a mentally ill detainee, to police. At week's end tempers appeared to be fraying in Atlanta as well. Ominous threats of "We'll kill them all" were heard over the inmates' walkie-talkies. One Atlanta inmate was stabbed in a scuffle with another detainee; he was treated at a local hospital and returned to the penitentiary...
...Aubuisson. In late March 1980, said Garay, acting under Saravia's instructions, he drove a dark-skinned, bearded man to the Hospital of Divine Providence. Outside the chapel, the man got out and ordered Garay to pretend he was tinkering with the car. A moment later, Garay heard a gunshot. Immediately the bearded man emerged from the chapel and got back into the car. It was only then that Garay realized the man had a rifle in his hands. Returning to Saravia, the assassin simply said, "Mission accomplished." His identity and whereabouts remain unknown...
...contraption looked like a giant red-and-white kite as it purred across Israel's northern border from Lebanon. Powered by a lawn mower-size engine and a small propeller, the hang glider whirred its way three miles into Israel. Israeli soldiers posted in south Lebanon heard the strange vehicle, but the helicopter gunships dispatched to identify the intruder could not find it. Finally, the hang glider landed with a thud in a field of thistles just north of the Israeli town of Qiryat Shemona...