Word: layed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just as crucial, perhaps, was South Africa's realization that its best interests lay in reaching a Namibia settlement while the Reagan Administration was still in office. At the same time, the Soviets started throwing their weight behind the peace process. Crocker has held half a dozen meetings with his Soviet counterparts since March to discuss the superpowers' role in the conflict and to ask Moscow to urge both the Angolans and the South Africans to be flexible...
...dissent, Chief Judge Donald Lay observed that "there is more than a little irony" in the notion that requiring both parents to be notified promoted "family integrity." Some 42% of all Minnesota minors, he pointed out, do not live with both biological parents...
...remains of the U.S.-built C-130 transport lay strewn across a sandy plain near the Indian border in Punjab province. The plane exploded Wednesday after taking off from a nearby airport...
Most of the wreckage lay in a 100-yard radius. A wing lying about 1000 yards away was the only piece not charred and mangled when the turpo-prop aircraft fell to the ground shortly after takeoff from Bahawalpur airport...
...relinquish Jordan's historical / connection to the West Bank, an area that Amman formally ruled from 1950 until 1967, when Israel seized the territory during the Six-Day War. But Hussein insisted in his speech that he was not abandoning the Palestinian cause. His more likely aim: to lay down a challenge to the P.L.O., which has long demanded total control of the West Bank. Should the P.L.O. fail to administrate effectively or to progress toward peace, Hussein in no way foreclosed a future role for Jordan. "It's the put-up-or-shut-up approach," said a Western diplomat...