Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were scarcely enough hospitals and doctors in Beirut to tend to those injured in the bombings. Lines of stretchers waited outside the American University Hospital. Distraught civilians kept vigil at the city morgue. The old, long-empty Triumph Hotel was converted into a P.L.O. hospital. Most of the patients were from the three Palestinian camps near Beirut airport that had been bombed by Israeli jets. In one of the dingy rooms on the fourth floor lay Autra Waehe'h, 43, who had deep shrapnel wounds in her right side. An Israeli bomb had crashed into the house next...
...time the conference ended last Sunday, the student organizers had received five death threats from anonymous callers, the Harvard Police had conducted a security sweep of the conference site in Austin Hall, and 150 students had gathered outside Paine Hall to join a "silent vigil" triggered by one of the conference's speakers...
...HAVEN, Conn.--More than 30 students held a silent vigil at Yale last week to protest the presence of Political Union (PU) speaker Ghassan Bishara, a Palestinian journalist and supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Police with submachine guns ringed Verona's 12th century Palazzo della Ragione while helicopters whirred overhead and sharpshooters kept a vigil from nearby rooftops. Inside, seven of the 16 Red Brigades terrorists accused of kidnaping U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier awaited the first day of their trial in two adjoining steel cages. In one were the duri (hard-liners), who have stubbornly maintained their silence during interrogation. In the other, for their own protection as much as anything else, were the pentiti (repentant ones), whose surprising willingness to betray their comrades has given Italian authorities reason to believe...
Along the power corridor of the White House, a few steps away from the Oval Office, they put the grace period at six to eight months. But in candid moments, Reagan's men admit that they face a lonely vigil through weeks of high unemployment and business decline...