Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LARNACA, Cyprus--The hijackers of a Kuwaiti jumbo jet offered to trade passengers for fuel yesterday and threatened to crash the aircraft into Kuwait's royal place. They also warned of a "slow and quiet massacre" of their hostages if their demands were...
Jackson maintains daily telephone contact with a range of people, among them Maxine Waters, the California assemblywoman; California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, his official campaign chairman and a strong but quiet influence; and former Carter Budget Director Bert Lance. But a few current inner-circle members may soon be advising Jackson from more distant orbits. In the wake of the Michigan primary, some prominent blacks in the campaign, Brown among them, are agitating for a more significant role. They want higher-profile positions so that when the inevitable brokering takes place, they will have assigned seats at the table...
...Such quiet radicalism has at times unsettled followers so devout that they would readily give up their lives for their leader. In the draft constitution he drew up in 1963, the God-King included, against his people's wishes, a clause that would allow for his impeachment. Now he is considering new methods for choosing the next Dalai Lama -- adopting an electoral system similar to the Vatican's, perhaps, or selecting on the basis of seniority, or even dispensing with the entire institution. "I think the time has come -- not necessarily to take a decision very soon, but to start...
...shrill notes died up in the rafters, Thompson rose slowly. He waddled to the pulpit, and all those lined against the church wall who felt safe talking during the choir number now settled into quiet...
After 15 months of investigation, a federal grand jury indicts Poindexter, North and two other Iranscam conspirators. -- A Sandinista "invasion" leads Reagan to send 3,200 U. S. troops to Honduras. -- In the wake of the Illinois primary, the Democratic race is more muddled than ever. -- A quiet town on the Hudson River is rocked by a controversial racial attack...