Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joseph Cicippio thought his low-profile position as acting comptroller of the American University of Beirut made him an unlikely target for terrorists. He was further protected, he believed, by his marriage to a Lebanese woman and his conversion to Islam in 1985. Nonetheless, as he left his campus apartment on Sept. 12, the Norristown, Pa., native was ambushed by four gunmen of the Shi'ite Revolutionary Justice Organization, pistol-whipped and loaded into the trunk of a car. He was the second American to be abducted in Lebanon that week...
...nearby feedlots. The odoriferous, carbon-rich stuff is dried for two to three months under the hot Imperial Valley sun before it is burned at 1500 degrees F to power the plant's steam turbines. Not one to waste a thing, Parish, 36, eventually hopes to sell the ash left over from the process for possible use in road building or absorbing toxic wastes. Although Mesquite Lake has not yet shown a profit, Parish is already planning a second alternative-energy plant -- to burn crop wastes. "Waste," he observes, "is a substance waiting for recognition...
...this point, about a third of the audience had left. More would follow...
...train, popularly known as "The Burro" because it stops at almost every station along the 900-mile route, is patronized almost entirely by poor Mexicans. It left Mazatlan at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, and had gone about 250 miles when the accident occurred at about 4 a.m. Police said they did not know how fast the train was going at the time...
Many reports referred to people missing, but many survivors apparently simply walked away and left the area or went home...