Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard pressed for space is the government's repressive apparatus that it has turned the U.S. embassy into a detention center and execution site. Says a Western diplomat who lives close to the former embassy compound: "At night, you are shocked out of sleep by rifle shots and the cries of people being executed." Iranians living in the area also complain of the horrifying sounds. Says a housewife: "We think the Islamic Guards shoot their victims in the embassy in a way that makes them die slowly and painfully. The screams are unbearable...
Attempts to reach a compromise between neighborhood leaders and MIT, as well as proposals for rezoning of the area, have failed. Under current zoning, MIT has wide discretion over construction on the site...
...this at a Government launch site." The site was, in fact, on a 19,000-acre ranch lent by Oil Mogul Toddie Lee Wynne, 85, one of SSI's main financial angels, who died a few hours before liftoff. With the, countdown under way, a launching-pad engineer wandered out to Conestoga I and, with a felt-tipped pen, scribbled on the rocket, GOD BLESS YOU, TODDIE LEE WYNNE. You can't do that at a Government launch site either...
...Jews the holiest place in Jerusalem is not there. It is the site of the destroyed Temple, and the Temple is not there. Nor is anyone sure exactly where the tabernacle was located within the Temple. Yet the spot is so sacred, no Jew will walk in the grounds for fear of treading on it. If it is possible, as an act of imagination, to believe that strongly in a place no longer there, it should be equally possible to believe in a peace with the Arabs that is not yet there either. For too long now Israel has peered...
...turn for the better. Following a Channel 7 evening news item the day after, the theft, a viewer, whose anonymity Roe is protecting. telephoned the police and reported seeing an abandoned trailer that matched Roe's description in a Medford field. By 9 p.m., Roe had arrived at the site and confirmed the viewer's suspicion...