Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showered with rocks as they tried to pick up victims. One ambulance driver suffered an eye injury when a rock shattered his window. More fires started-about 50 in all-and firemen couldn't get to many of them. "Utter chaos," said one fire department dispatcher. Just before midnight, Governor Bob Graham alerted the National Guard, and 1,000 troopers with M-16 rifles streamed into the embattled city...
Approximately 100 students gathered in the Quincy Junior Common Room after the arrests to view the "Women Against Pornography" slide show and to discuss the issues surrounding the film and social attitudes about sex. The discussion lasted until midnight...
...Turner, who had been following the unfolding events from his CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. While Carter telephoned some foreign leaders and key members of Congress, Vance directed his staff at the State Department to get ready to inform the relatives of the hostages. The meeting ended at midnight, but each participant returned to his own office to work on into the night...
...news that came crackling over Radio Aden shortly after midnight indicated that once again intrigue was brewing in the South Yemen capital. Ostensibly for reasons of health, Abdel Fattah Ismail, 40, had resigned as his country's President and secretary-general of the ruling Socialist Party. Replacing him in both positions was Prime Minister Ali Nasser Muhammad, 41. In fact, there had been a bloodless coup...
Last week the bomb went off. About an hour before midnight, the area was rocked by two small explosions. A moment later, residents of Elizabeth and neighboring Staten Island, N.Y., were jolted by a third blast, which sent a fireball hundreds of feet into the air. Some 30 people were injured, and the blaze that followed burned for more than ten hours before exhausted firemen were able to bring it under control. "I thought it was the end of the world," said Ralph Spinelli of Staten Island, who stood on his porch and watched 55-gal. drums fly into...