Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Police Detective Richard Fuqua, the men then drove 50 miles to an isolated desert area and hurled Suzanne off a cliff. They heard her moaning and climbed down to her side. She pleaded with them to leave her alone because, she said, "I'm dying anyway." The response was swift. "Damn right you are," one of the men said, and picked up a large rock and crushed her head to still her sounds...
...offending the Soviets, has belatedly realized that his foreign policy was out of tune with public opinion. The French voter has become increasingly wary of Moscow's motives in the wake of Afghanistan and the outbreak of unrest in Poland. Consequently, the election-minded President has executed a swift about-face. Since France is not a member of NATO's military command, it has no direct role in the U.S. missile-deployment plans. Yet Frenchmen have been virtually unanimous in embracing a need for vigorous self-defense ever since Charles de Gaulle established the independent French nuclear deterrent...
Chief Justice Warren Burger's speech on crime's "reign of terror" at the American Bar Association convention [Feb. 23] was characteristically wishy-washy. At the same time that he cited the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences, he told us the war on crime "will not be won simply by harsher sentences...
...some enterprising fund raisers from mounting their own campaigns. Said State Assemblyman Tyrone Brooks: "There are people moving throughout our city, soliciting money, goods and clothing under the pretense that they are trying to help the families of the murdered and missing children. These people are very slick and swift...
Defense. The aim of the Saudis' military program is to build a credible deterrent that would serve notice on any potential aggressor that a move against the country or its oilfields could bring swift retaliation. Their exposed position is obvious: 4,400 miles of difficult-to-defend borders encircled by strategic problems. To the north, two radical neighbors, Syria and Iraq. To the south, Marxist South Yemen, teeming with East bloc advisers. Across the gulf, revolutionary Iran, which regards the Saudi monarchy as corrupt and Saudi society as decadent. To defend itself in this cockpit, the Saudis can deploy...