Word: mournings
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...survivors barely had time to mourn when suddenly there they were: American lawyers. Looking for business. They courted Indian legal experts over leisurely meals in New Delhi's finest hotels. They culled documents at makeshift relief offices outside the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, seeking the names of potential clients. Their motives, the U.S. lawyers insisted, were pure. As Melvin Belli, the flamboyant San Francisco attorney sometimes called the "King of Torts," put it, somewhat inelegantly, "I am here to bring justice and money to those poor little people who have suffered at the hands of those rich sons...
...blood will invigorate the nation!" she prophetically declared hours before her assassination. As the people of the world mourn her death today, they know that her spirit will live on in the hearts and minds of the people of India--the peasents in the fields, the blue collar workers in the factories and offices and the businessmen and lawyers in the air-conditioned high rises of Bombay and New Delhi. In her life and now, in her death, Indira had something to say to them...
...must bear one another's burdens. We must rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together. We must be knit together by a bond of love...
...Arbor), Mondale seemed strangely liberated. He quieted thousands jammed into a Cleveland shopping arcade by quoting John Winthrop, the 17th century Puritan who envisioned a shining "city upon a hill." Mondale emphasized Winthrop's words: "We must bear one another's burdens, we must rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, we must be knit together by a bond of love...
...vanished while visiting Libya in 1978. Aside from that, life in the city was normal. On Wednesday four men were kidnapped, allegedly by Christian vigilantes. The next day, three Christians were abducted. And somewhere in the city, several more women suddenly agonized over whether they should hope or mourn. -By James Kelly...