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Normally, wars are not won by dying for one's country. They are won by making the enemy die for his. Unfortunately, holy wars are not waged under this harsh but rational precept. Today many religious zealots seem almost eager to die for their cause in suicidal truck bombings and other terroristic attacks. President Reagan said two weeks ago that there were as many as 1,000 kamikaze terrorists being trained in Iran alone. Such individual fanaticism has now been coupled with something new: the technical resources and diplomatic protections of governments like Iran's and Syria...
...safeguards were in operation when the President visited Indianapolis to address the National Forum on Excellence in Education. Every downtown intersection near the motorcade's route was blocked off with snowplows, dump trucks and empty buses. The Secret Service also has added a truck of machine gun-ready agents to every motorcade since...
After earning the Crimson's top slot as a freshman. Staley was hit by a truck while riding a bike in December 1981. The injuries she sustained in the accident kept her from playing until September of this year...
When the First Family is out of town, as it was last week, the lights on the White House lawn are usually dark. But at dusk last Thursday the grounds came brilliantly alight. Caught in the glare were seven sand-filled Government trucks that set up barricades at the mansion's gates. At the State Department, similar drastic security measures were in effect. The precautions were sparked by a bomb threat received by the FBI. It coincided with a review of security prompted by the October truck bombing in Beirut and the terrorist blast that left a gaping hole...
...heaven." The mother, already deeply offended and in tears, only later realized that the clown's voice was that of her own daughter. After the daughter tied the balloons to the coffin, pallbearers in work shirts carried the coffin to the dead man's Chevrolet pickup truck...