Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muslim fundamentalists or members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who might have attacked the college to embarrass Israel and exacerbate Arab-Jewish tensions. Prime Minister Menachem Begin termed the attack a "loathsome crime." Brigadier General Benyamin Ben-Eliezer, coordinator of Israeli operations in the occupied territories, declared, "We will spare no effort and do whatever has to be done in order to find the murderers...
...stolen items included five cameras worth $300 each. $300in tools, air pumps and spare bicycle parts, about $2600 in travellers checks and cash intended for trip expenses, and nearly $400 in personal cash, a Detroit police spokesman said yesterday. The 36 bicycles belonging to the group, as well as the van from which the items were taken, were not damaged during the robbery, which took place between midnight Friday and 7.30 Saturday morning, police said No suspects have been identified and chances for recover ing the stolen goods are "not good," they added...
Four days after chastising the military for buying expensive spare parts, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was scheduled to fly to California in a well-appointed VC-9C. Purpose: a two-hour visit to the Oakland Naval Supply Center. But there was another reason to head west: a two-day stop at the annual gathering of the exclusive Bohemian Club near San Francisco...
...then took her own life. There is a pattern: the parents cannot pay back loans or cannot endure the financial pressures of their lives. One psychiatrist observes, "Japanese kill themselves for more or less altruistic reasons, not out of egoism or self-pity." And they kill the children to spare them the pain of growing up without their parents. Lately police have found dozens of bodies in the forests around Mount Fuji. People travel from all over Japan to commit suicide there. The place has been named "Suicide Forest." The police have posted blunt notices there that killing oneself...
...seduced. And when they speak out, readers respond by the thousands. Internationally prominent novelists like Kobo Abe (Woman in the Dunes) and Kenzaburo Oe regularly sell 150,000 copies of each book. Other novelists, like Hisashi Inoue, 47, have enjoyed even greater success (see box). Shusako Endo's spare and elegant studies of Christian faith and martyrdom (Silence; The Samurai) have brought the 60-year-old author the title of the Japanese Graham Greene and made him one of the nation's most widely translated writers...