Word: lincoln
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Gunnery Sergeant Edward Kimm, 33, was no kid. Rather, he was a decent man who ungrudgingly kept up his child-support payments and arranged to spend a month every year with his two daughters, 7 and 6, who live in Lincoln, Neb., with their mother. Last week his stepdaughter Christina, 9, recalled that during his last visit, Kimm prepared them for the worst. "He said that if two Marines came to the door at our house, then he would be dead...
...Marine messengers arrived the morning after the news from Beirut, both in Lincoln and two hours northeast at Kimm's mother's home in Atlantic, Iowa (pop. 7,789). "I think the girls are trying to block it out," says Janet Kimm, his exwife. "I've been trying to get them to break down and get it out of their systems." Kimm, a Marine cook whose chili the girls remember fondly, would have been whipping up Sunday breakfast for some 300 men when the explosion came...
...risks to Reagan's presidency and to the nation and indeed the world are formidable. But that is the case in meaningful action. Some interest or some authority must be opposed, thwarted. And in such times, only success will succeed. A long time ago Abraham Lincoln summed it up in the greatest crisis this nation has ever faced. "If the end brings me out all right," he said, "what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference...
...King's birthday (which actually is Jan. 15) as a national holiday had been introduced in every session of Congress since the charismatic minister was assassinated in 1968, and just as regularly sidetracked. Opponents questioned whether King or anyone else should be granted an honor never conferred on Lincoln or Jefferson. But blacks have been registering to vote in numbers that hardly any politician can continue to ignore, and the holiday had become an issue of enormous symbolic significance. In August the House voted for the idea...
...disclosure caused a storm of protest. Geula Cohen of the Tehiya Party, a coalition member, said the next logical step was to put Abraham Lincoln's picture on the shekel. Other members described the "dollarization" plan as a blow to Israel's sovereignty that would make the country in effect the U.S.'s 51st state. Within hours, Aridor offered his resignation...