Word: slaughtered
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...Israel's murderous tactics in Lebanon and the occupied territories. What the Arabs lack in regard to the Holocaust is not understanding, but rather guilt. The Arabs are not Germany, which perpetrated those terrible events. Nor are they France or Italy which either stood by or helped in the slaughter. The Arabs are not even Britain or the United States which allowed cries for help to go unheeded. Thus the Arabs can not be faulted if they refuse to be blackmailed by the memory of those tragic murders...
...Salvador last summer, he felt the old activist itch and decided to campaign against aid for the contras in Nicaragua. Last week the actor hit the hustings in upstate New York, livening up fund raisers for Democratic Congressional Candidates , Rosemary Pooler of Syracuse, his hometown, and Louise Slaughter of Rochester. As he went door to door speaking on Central America, Gere met a swelling electorate. "People were extraordinarily generous," he said. "They were dressed up in their best. Suddenly 18 people lived in each house; 15 cars were in every driveway." The show biz apparently worked. Said Pooler...
...have found significant levels of radioactive cesium in goat cheese, leeks and other foods. In Britain the Foreign Office is investigating the possibility of bringing international legal action against the Soviets in an effort to recover losses incurred by sheep farmers who were prevented from bringing their animals to slaughter because the sheep had eaten contaminated grass...
What other team could have devised a way to lose in those five fateful years? What other team would have let a runner (Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals) score from first base on a single to win the 1946 world series, or seen its pennant-clinching runner (Luis Aparichio) stumble in the basepaths just before he would score, or let one of its ace hurlers give up a home run to Bucky Dent in the division-deciding game against the Yankees...
...grain sorghum, a livestock feed, almost 80% more than in June 1985. The U.S. is producing a huge excess of milk as well, a problem reduced only partly by the USDA's program this year to pay thousands of dairy farmers some $1.8 billion to send their herds to slaughter or export markets...