Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trap for a nondiplomat like Zakharov, and then by putting him in jail. Normally agents who are arrested are expelled or released to the Soviet Ambassador. "The Soviets don't like to have their spies put in jail," says former CIA Director Stansfield Turner. "Things won't get quiet until...
...officials tried to mute the matter, hoping that a cooling of rhetoric would allow a quiet solution. "The object is to save face for everyone," said a White House spokesman. "We're trying to find a way through the maze." Despite reports that the Administration was ready to retaliate, President Reagan postponed making a public statement on the issue until at least Monday. Instead, Reagan sent a private letter to Gorbachev in which, according to a spokesman, he "gently but firmly" asserted Daniloff's innocence and demanded his release. Word was passed to the Soviets that they should resubmit their...
...terrorists, alternately harsh and conciliatory, angrily ordered passengers to move to the center of the plane. Some obeyed, while others tried to hide in the darkness. Recalls Michael Goldstein, a physician from Los Angeles: "The stewardesses were using megaphones, asking passengers to be very quiet amd not to panic." Then, with scores of people crouching in the middle of the plane, the terrorists shouted out an ominous countdown: "One . . . two . . . three!" On the count of three they began firing machine guns from the forward part of the craft and exploding hand grenades at the rear. Some of the passengers broke...
...fold his beloved notebook of verse and go down to his cornfields to meet his neighbor Jim Anderzhon. Anderzhon will be there in his John Deere 6620 SideHill combine. Carey cannot afford a combine of his own, so he hires his neighbor's machine. The two will talk the quiet talk of farmers for a few minutes, looking at the breathtaking beauty of abundance. Then, in the huge stillness of dawn along the Nishnabotna River, Anderzhon will climb into the combine's high cab and turn the starter key, shattering the stillness with 145 steel- throated horses...
...will never be known how many died in probably the worst natural calamity ever to strike the quiet west African country. The U.N. Disaster Relief coordinator in Geneva put the toll at 1,746, but the number may be far higher. National army units, fearing an epidemic, quickly buried the decomposing bodies, never pausing to keep count. More corpses were hastily buried by kin from neighboring villages. "There are mass graves because we only had a few laborers, and we could not dig individual graves," Lieut. General James Tataw, commander of the rescue operation, told reporters. "Those who have individual...