Word: rids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barbie, who grew up in Trier, a small town in Germany, and dreamed of becoming a minister, first arrived in Lyons at the age of 28. He was assigned the task of fighting the Resistance and getting rid of the Jews. The young, dedicated Nazi excelled at his job. He is accused of having executed 4,000 people and deported 7,500 Jews. His career grew so bloodstained that he was dubbed the "Butcher of Lyons." Yet only a fragment of that past will be weighed in the deliberations: the accusation is primarily concerned with the 44 Jewish children...
...going to have the zero option in Europe, we've got to have it in Asia too. The Soviets' warheads allowed in Asia are aimed at the Chinese, with whom I'm somewhat familiar, and at the Japanese and Koreans. If we really press to get rid of those weapons, Gorbachev would have difficulty turning us down. Also, remember that the goal of arms control is not just to reduce the danger of war but to reduce the danger of blackmail, and that's why we need to be concerned about Soviet conventional superiority. The Soviets have stonewalled on that...
There's also the question of strategic arms. Let's keep the zero option in perspective. If we get rid of all those missiles covered by the offer, we're still talking about less than 3% of the 50,000 warheads in the world. We're not addressing the main issue...
...Soviet Union's emigration laws are among the tightest in the world, but authorities will readily bend the rules when it suits them. Last week they did just that to rid themselves of a nemesis who had attracted worldwide attention: Psychiatrist Anatoli Koryagin, who was sentenced to seven years in labor camps after protesting the practice of locking up political dissidents in mental hospitals and often dosing them with mind-altering drugs...
...example, the Minnesota Twins are wearing pinstripes in the Metrodome for the first time ever. At least, the Twins management had gotten rid of the confusing "T.C." lettering on the cap. Who outside of Minnesota thinks of Minneapolis and St. Paul as the Twin Cities...