Word: stormings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lebanon, a pro-Iranian group threatened to kill kidnapped American and French hostages if any attempt was made to storm the plane. A statement from the Islamic Jihad terrorist group was delivered to the Reuters news agency in West Beirut, along with photographs of journalists Terry A. Anderson, an American, and Jean-Paul Kauffmann of France...
...terms of processing returns, ironically, the IRS seems to be plowing resolutely through reform's storm. "So far, the filing season is one of the best that we have ever had," says Lawrence Gibbs, the IRS commissioner. By early March 36.7 million returns had been filed, only 2.4% fewer than at the same time last year. The IRS is processing them at about the same rate as last year and mailing refunds, which average $801, up from $755 last year, in the usual three to four weeks after the filing. Perhaps most surprising is the decline in cheating. Gibbs believes...
...President vanished from the walls. Civil servants in Vienna hung a 100-ft.-long banner from a government office building demanding that Waldheim step down. In the capital's St. Stephen's Square, some 3,500 demonstrators gathered around a 10-ft.-high wooden horse wearing a storm trooper's cap, which has become an anti-Waldheim symbol...
Dukakis has always displayed enormous emotional stamina. He was shattered by his gubernatorial defeat in 1978, but slowly put himself back together. He cannot be intimidated. Legislators sometimes storm into his office to challenge him, but he stays dead calm. One day a house leader, furious that Dukakis opposed certain legislation, suddenly began kicking at chairs and flicking cigar ashes on the Governor's desk. Dukakis, arms folded, sat and stared at him. His refusal to compromise became a trademark in the legislature. Remembers a resentful senate leader: "He always wanted...
...Pentecostal fervor. The networks last week showed clips of him waving his arms as he spoke of curing hemorrhoids. In an interview with David Frost that aired this Sunday, Robertson defended the time he prayed on his television show to divert the course of Hurricane Gloria, adding of the storm's subsequent shift toward New York, "I think it was divine intervention." Bringing the Holy Ghost in on the cure for hemorrhoids seems, on the face of it, to disqualify the practitioner of such "solutions" from sitting with the National Security Council in judgment of more complicated matters...