Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defenders claim that Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, 65, is nothing more than a quiet resident of the Cleveland suburb of Seven Hills, retired from his job in a Ford auto plant. But to his Israeli accusers, Demjanjuk is "Ivan the Terrible," who helped murder some 900,000 people at the Nazi death camp near Treblinka, Poland, in 1942 and 1943 and then slipped into the U.S. in 1952 as a "displaced person." Last week, after seven years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the extradition of Demjanjuk to Israel, where he will become the first...
...helped, as did the last-minute defections of Enrile and Ramos. But at the center of it all was Aquino: petite, polite, increasingly self-assured, a woman who spoke for a country, molding an inchoate popular movement into a winning political force. The base of her appeal was a quiet strength, deeply rooted in her devotion to the Roman Catholic Church, which imbued her with seeming invincibility. "Ninoy you could hurt," said Teodoro Locsin, 37, Aquino's Minister of Information, last week. "But Cory you cannot hurt...
...series. But Mike wants his public to know that his success didn't come overnight. We are talking about a veteran of commercials for Doublemint gum, French's mustard and Toyota. Now if you'll excuse us." Mike, we hear you are trying to get away for a quiet tryst with your collie girlfriend. Any comment? "Really we must go. Mike has never attacked a reporter before...
...unrest in the traditionally quiet township began Saturday, Feb. 15, as thousands of mourners were returning from the funerals of two local blacks. It is uncertain how the disturbances began, but within moments blacks were hurling stones at police, who counterattacked with tear-gas canisters. The violence quickly escalated. By Monday the turbulence had spread to the outskirts of the township, where black youths peppered local factories with Molotov cocktails...
...times in the past, the divestment movement has been relatively quiet. At times there have been so few people in the movement that it cannot concentrate on both agitation and education. Two years ago marked a particular low in the movement, and much of last year was spent attempting to regain some of the momentum the movement had lost, SASC members say. This year, SASC numbers 30 core members...