Word: landed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) said in a statement that Reagan's veto was "wholly unnecessary and it provoked an unnecessary confrontation. The new law will not end illegal discrimination. But it does represent a step forward in making America truly a land of equal opportunity...
...There are only six and one half square miles of land in Cambridge," Healy says. "Fresh Pond takes up about half a mile, and after you subtract Harvard and MIT's property that leaves about five miles of usable property for 100,000 people. With commuters it's maybe 150,000 to 200,000 on any given...
...Contras maintain camps in an area called Bocay, which includes territory on both sides of the border. Nicaragua claims the camps, which the Contras use to store supplies and to stage raids inside Nicaragua, are in Nicaraguan land but the rebels say they are in Honduras...
...gnawing problem for Likud as well as Labor is that the nation continues to be deeply divided over what to do about the occupied territories. At week's end a poll of some 500 Israelis published in the Tel Aviv daily Hadashot showed that while 46% favored the land-for-peace proposal and 37% opposed it, fully 17% were undecided on the country's most urgent political issue...
Explaining that the jet had insufficient fuel, the flight crew told the hijackers they would have to land at the Finnish town of Kotka. Instead, the three-engine jet touched down at an airstrip outside Leningrad, where Soviet officials attempted to negotiate with the family. But after the Ovechkins shot and killed a flight attendant, an antiterrorist team stormed the plane. As the men rushed the jet, the hijackers apparently set off an explosive device, and a shoot-out ensued. Realizing that the attempt had failed, two of the Ovechkin sons shot and killed their mother, then turned their weapons...