Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then a dozen whites leaped out of the van and began firing pistols, shotguns and at least one automatic rifle at the demonstrators. Said Bermanzohn's wife Sally: "I saw a man in the right front seat of the lead car. He had a pistol. We shouted, 'He's got a gun!' Then I heard the firing start." Said Truck Driver Jeff Rackley: "It was just like a war movie, with everybody shooting all over the place and people screaming. I saw two people go down, a man and a woman." Added Photographer Don Davis...
...Carter that he would not preclude her from any future Supreme Court vacancy. For now, however, she is content to concentrate on education. To reporters, she insisted that her "lifelong interest" in education qualified her for the post. She admitted, however, that she does not "have any specific ideas right now about the Department of Education because I simply don't know enough about the entire program...
...tragically wrong. The DC-10 touched down on the closed runway and headed toward a dump truck. Gilbert apparently realized his mistake and tried, too late, to lift the DC-10 back into the air. The plane smashed into the truck, veered wildly to the right, wound up slamming into an Eastern Air Lines maintenance building and burst into flames. The final death count was 73: a total of 60 passengers, eleven crew members, including Gilbert, and two people on the ground...
...Cyrus Vance and President Carter's son Chip joined representatives from 42 countries. The presence of the opposition party leader Kim Young Sam was evidence that the mourning period had brought South Koreans a time of political truce. A traumatic bloodbath was behind them, but they had every right to be apprehensive about its uncertain consequences...
...terrorist groups that seek to provoke a Nicaragua-style insurrection. On the other are the hit teams obedient to the country's ultraconservative elite. Standing helpless in the middle, unable to control either the notoriously brutal 12,000-man security forces or intransigent foes on the left and right, is the civilian-military junta that ousted President Carlos Humberto Romero only last month...