Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within a seven-day period, reactivated P.L.O. hit teams launched assaults that left four people dead and eleven more wounded in a number of cities. In return, Palestinian enemies of Arafat attacked the P.L.O. office in Paris, killing Arafat's Principal Deputy on the Continent and his Assistant. At week's end there were no signs that the bloodletting was over-and no clear answer as to what effect it would have on the Middle East peacemaking process...
...vigil, the Palestinian was persuaded to release his hostages and surrender. As he was being led away from the embassy by police, an Iraqi security agent opened pointblank pistol fire at him. The Palestinian was hit in the thigh, and one of his French escorts was killed. In the return fire, an Iraqi security man was fatally wounded. Three Iraqis were arrested...
Today, according to the report, a five-mile wedge of Seveso has been successfully detoxified, at a cost of $32 million, by government teams that cleared and buried entire acres of plants and even topsoil. Most of the 736 residents who were originally evacuated have been able to return to their homes, but 285 are still locked out of a 215-acre area enclosed by the yellow fence. That inner bulls-eye remains blighted by concentrated "leopard spots" of contamination and continues to defy all attempts at purification. "It may be a wasteland forever-we just don't know...
...other port is reserved for the Soyuz ferry craft that brought Kovalenok and Ivanchenkov to Salyut and will eventually return them to earth...
...playing a wait-and-see game. They claim that they will not order new aircraft simply as a reaction to this summer's sudden and unexpected surge. Explains Pan Am's Seawell: "If you buy new capacity for marginally priced traffic, you don't really get an adequate return on your investment...