Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense, Khalil al-Wazir died for a biblical injunction: an eye for an eye. When an Israeli hit team assassinated the Palestine Liberation Organization's operations chief three weeks ago, the act was in retaliation for his role in masterminding a large number of P.L.O. terror attacks over the years. Yet al- Wazir's death was also intended to decapitate the intifadeh, the five- month- old uprising that has rocked the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank. As head of the P.L.O.'s "western-sector command," he was in charge of the organization's support...
Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa quickly endorsed the apparently spontaneous protests on behalf of his outlawed organization. He and fellow Solidarity activists are in a delicate position: they fear the consequences of massive strikes but are eager to play a role in any new round of negotiations between the workers and the regime. Conceding that huge across-the-board wage increases would undermine the already tottering economy, Walesa called for genuine economic and political reforms instead...
...acidic precipitation. Called acid rain, the phenomenon now stands accused of laying waste marine life along the Atlantic Coast as well. In a report issued last week, the Manhattan-based Environmental Defense Fund charges that nitrogen oxides spewed from U.S. power plants, factories and automobiles have played a major role in destroying fish and other creatures in Atlantic bays and estuaries. Acid rain, concludes Michael Oppenheimer, an atmospheric physicist and one of the authors of the report, is "destroying the spawning grounds for East Coast fisheries...
Although no one disputes that Chesapeake Bay and other coastal ecosystems are becoming dangerously polluted by excess nitrogen, not all experts agree that acid rain plays a key role. David Cohen, a spokesman for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, believes the contribution of nitrogen oxides "is much lower than 25%." EPA scientists suspect that agricultural runoff and the dumping of industrial sewage are far worse culprits...
...President Reagan announced that he would allow Britain to sell sensitive nuclear-submarine technology to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government. Under a 1958 treaty, the subs cannot be sold without U.S. permission. The Canadians are also considering a French bid for the submarine contract. The nuclear subs' primary role would be to strengthen the Canadian contribution to NATO's North American defense. They would also put some muscle into Canada's assertion of sovereignty over the main routes through its vast Arctic waters...