Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal Transportation Department said the 11-car train, carrying about 360 people, plunged off a bridge Wednesday morning following torrential rains and fell about 25 feet into the river in northwestern Mexico. The train was bound from the Pacific coastal resort of Mazatlan to Mexicali, on the California border...
...Raab stresses that unilateral military action should be a last resort. He would prefer to use trade and financial sanctions against drug-source nations such as Mexico -- also anathema to traditionalists at State and Treasury, who argue that punitive economic measures would undermine Latin American economies and drive thousands more people into the drug underground. "Before long, there may be provisions in International Monetary Fund loans about ((protecting)) elephants in Kenya and rain forests in Brazil," says Von Raab, "but there are no provisions on drugs...
...something other than a foretaste of future horrors are urged to recall that after 18 months of sticks and stones, the intifadeh command last month instructed its followers to "kill a settler or a soldier for every martyr of our people." And those who dismiss the settlers' increasing resort to acts of revenge as the scattered expressions of madmen are similarly out of touch...
...blunt and unwelcome message: "There is simply no way a British government could grant to several million people the right to come and live in Britain." Instead, while planning to admit perhaps 100,000 Hong Kong Chinese, London offered to enlist the U.S., Canada and Australia in a last- resort "lifeboat" plan to absorb others in the event of a mass exodus. In the meantime, Britain would hasten the implementation of self-rule and press Beijing for fresh assurances that Chinese troops would stay out of Hong Kong. The colony's Chinese were not appeased. Storming out of the hall...
...intruded into Soviet airspace. All 269 passengers and crew members were killed in that mishap. The key provision in the 19-page pact, titled "The Prevention of Dangerous Military Activities," is that incidents, including border incursions, that might lead to a showdown should be handled "by peaceful means without resort to the threat or use of force." Trespassers will be "regarded as innocent until proved guilty." Until now, the Soviet military regarded any intruder as hostile until proved otherwise...