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President Bush could make the nightmare all the more likely if he decides -- as some of his aides and key Congressmen are urging -- to start sending U.S. arms to the non-Communist resistance forces. Under present circumstances, and under current U.S. policy, that "lethal assistance" would be directed against Phnom Penh, not the Khmer Rouge...
...soccer has been plagued by a series of fatal mishaps. During a 1985 soccer game in Bradford, England, fire engulfed the grandstand, killing 56 fans. The same year, 39 people died at Heysel Stadium in Brussels after Liverpool hooligans attacked supporters of the rival Italian team, touching off a lethal stampede. As a result, the Union of European Football Associations banned English clubs indefinitely and barred Liverpool from playing in Europe for an additional three seasons...
...current series of Doonesbury strips, Michael's employer wants him to design advertisements to lure first-time, or "entry-level" smokers into a lethal habit. The contract promises big money, but his liberal soul protests. Should he serve God or Mammon--social responsibility or individual opportunity...
...Honduran President orally on them. The quid pro quo had been approved that same month at a meeting of a special interagency crisis-planning group headed by Bush, although it was not clear whether he led this key meeting. At the time, the Boland amendment was in effect, banning lethal help to the contras...
...waves, currents and winds of the open ocean dispersed them; the hemorrhage from the tanker Exxon Valdez is the first big spill to foul an enclosed body of cold water. Clifton Curtis, executive director of the Oceanic Society, predicts that the oil deposits on the bottom will act "as lethal time-release capsules," turning loose "harmful petroleum hydrocarbons for months and even years." Birds, fish and marine animals such as seals and otters that are not killed quickly by being coated with crude will still be in danger, as the bottom oil contaminates first microorganisms, then the small fish that...