Word: masse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then why did Dean Fitzsimmons resign from SAS four days after media reports pinpointed the company's existence and publicized the government probe? And in doing so transfer the business' legal address from Fitzsimmons' Weston, Mass. home to Reed...
When he reached the press room, Wesbecker shot himself with the pistol and fell face down in a pool of blood. Survivors counting bodies found seven dead and 13 wounded, five critically -- the biggest toll by a mass killer since another nut with an AK-47 sprayed a Stockton, Calif., schoolyard and killed five children last January. Investigators said Wesbecker, a former pressman, had harbored a grudge against his ex-employers since going on total disability for mental illness. Said Joe White, a Standard-Gravure employee: "This guy's been talking about this for a year. He's paranoid...
...Kremlin that leaked in West Germany last week, Valentin Falin, head of the international department of the Soviet party's Central Committee, said the East German leadership had "sharply rebuffed" advice from Moscow but was "powerless" to deal with the crisis. He predicted that "hard-to-control mass demonstrations" would break out in East Germany by early next year...
...dramatic stampede of more than 14,000 East Germans into West Germany last week followed Hungary's decision to grant the refugees passage across its border with Austria. The ensuing crush marked the largest mass exodus from behind the Iron Curtain since the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961. True, the flow was a trickle compared with the hemorrhage of 3 million East Germans to the West between 1949 and 1961. But this time there was the remarkable sight of Hungary bucking its Communist ally to assist the East German refugees in their quest to begin new lives...
...Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.), who is currently facing ethics charges in the House, said yesterday that Stephen Gobie "wasn't the first prostitute I had used," even though he believed it was wrong to patronize them...