Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racism, and allowed civil rights to fade into the background of national debate. Meanwhile it has quietly appointed scores of conservative judges to the Federal Courts and to the Supreme Court. Only now, after seven years of relative quiet on the civil rights front, are these appointments taking their toll--giving America a bitter taste of the Reagan legacy...
...house arrest. In addition, eight more Palestinians were deported to Lebanon, bringing to 20 the number expelled since the intifadeh (uprising) began last December. Despite the precautions, which included banning most reporters from the territories, clashes between soldiers and Palestinians resulted in five Arab deaths, raising the four-month toll to at least...
...strike was in retaliation for damage suffered two weeks ago by the ^ American frigate Samuel B. Roberts after it hit an Iranian mine in international waters. Ten American crewmen were injured in the explosion and fire, the worst casualty toll since the accidental Iraqi attack about a year ago on the U.S.S. Stark that claimed 37 lives...
...entitled "Perestroikia, Nedostroikia: Glasnost, Fire and Floods in Soviet Libraries," Hugh Olmsted said that a series of fires and floods have wreaked havoc on the Soviet library system since 1972. The latest disaster at the Academy of Sciences Library which destryoed 300,000 volumes and damaged 4 million all toll only underscores the need for imporved maintenance in that country's library system, he said...
...scores wounded in clashes with Israeli soldiers. In the West Bank the scene was somewhat less violent but no less angry. Palestinians flew black flags and crowded the mosques to read commemorative phrases from the Koran. Still, tensions resulted in five deaths, making last Saturday's total death toll of at least twelve the highest daily count since the Palestinian uprisings began last December. Confronted by growing demonstrations and stone-throwing youths, the Israeli army imposed curfews on eight more refugee camps...