Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they were not a race riot. The riots were essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police." Lord Scarman concedes that while "institutional racism" does not exist in Britain, "racial disadvantage and its nasty associate racial discrimination have not yet been eliminated. They poison minds and attitudes. They are, and so long as they remain, will continue to be, a potent factor of unrest." Another incendiary element is Britain's continuing recession. More than half the blacks under age 19 in Brixton are jobless. To ignore such economic realities, writes Scarman...
...himself with a radio cord. He had been arrested when police found drawings in his home leading to arms that were buried around his property near Hamburg. But before he committed suicide, Lembke told authorities of an arsenal of weapons, some 90 crates of hand grenades, guns, ammunition, plus poison, that was concealed at 33 sites throughout the countryside. The discoveries, the largest of their kind in West German history, were alarming evidence of a rising wave of terrorism that is being carried out by tiny bands of right-wing extremists...
...local Solidarity farm manager. In Tarnobrzeg province, 180,000 stayed off the job because of inadequate food supplies. And in southern Sosnowiec, near Katowice, angry miners launched an open-ended strike to protest a bizarre incident in which some 70 people were injured when four bottles of poison gas were hurled at a mine entrance from a speeding...
Enterprising Spanish importers figured they would find another market for the oil by reversing the "denaturing" process that had transformed it into industrial oil, simultaneously making it unfit for human consumption. Apparently, some distributors botched the reversal process and unwittingly created a deadly poison. But the adulterated oil was already on the market, being peddled by door-to-door salesmen who unsuspectingly offered their lethal wares as a bargain for hard-pressed families. At about $5.50 for a 5-gal. plastic container, the oil cost 25% less than a comparable amount of olive...
...State Department is still reluctant to level public accusations at the Soviet Union. Some officials would like to do so on the humane grounds that public disclosure might prevent further use of the poison and avoid more such deaths in both Southeast Asia and Afghanistan. More cautious U.S. officials prefer to await similar verification that the chemical has been used in both Laos and Afghanistan...