Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes as no surprise that these attacks are happening now. Reagan sponsors brutal political repression through "friendship" with the likes of South Korea's Chun Doo Hwan, and lethal aid to the murdering junta in El Salvador. And on the home front, the racist "justice" in Greensboro set the stage for Reagan's America: it's open season on Blacks, workers and the left...
...also rushed an additional $5 million in emergency-"lethal," meaning combat-equipment, including M-16 rifles and M-79 grenade launchers, as well as four more helicopters and a dozen more U.S. technicians. In fact, the Salvadoran military could probably outfit two battalions with the caches captured from the guerrillas during their offensive. Most of the weapons were of Western manufacture: Belgian automatic rifles, Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns and U.S. M16s. There were also large numbers of Soviet grenades and Chinese-made rocket launchers. The weapons, bought in many places and stockpiled in Nicaragua, according to intelligence reports...
...comeback, Wide Receiver Harold Carmichael set an N.F.L. record for receptions in 127 straight games, and Kicker Tony Franklin proved that barefoot boys can make it in the N.F.L. The Eagles defense is football's stingiest. In the N.F.C. championship game against the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia held usually lethal Running Back Tony Dorsett to just 41 yds., held Quarterback Danny White to 127 yds. passing...
...body after it left Dallas long enough to retrieve the actual lethal bullets; these, Lifton says, were fired from the front of the motorcade in Dealey Plaza, not from the book depository behind the presidential convertible. The schemers, Lifton continues, enlarged Kennedy's head wound to conceal evidence that he had been shot from the front; they added two back wounds, which had not been seen by some 13 nurses and doctors handling the body at Parkland. Yes, writes Lifton, this had to be a plot "involving the Executive Branch of the Government" and including at least the Secret...
...somehow, simultaneously bring the annual 140% inflation rate down to double digits by the end of the year. Understandably, he was not always thanked for his tightfistedness. However, Hurvitz had won many of his economic battles with his colleagues with almost regular use of his most lethal political weapon: a credible threat to resign and take his tiny, three-man Rafi faction into opposition, which in turn could bring down the government...