Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington's fear of a bloodbath was not unfounded. Early Monday morning a crowd of Marcos supporters armed with batons and tear gas moved toward Camp Crame, where the reformers were gathered. Over transistor radios, Marcos was ! heard vowing, "We'll wipe them out. It is obvious they are committing a rebellion." And over Radio Veritas came Enrile's reply, "I am not going to surrender...
...estimated Tuesday that he and his friends may have as much as $10 billion invested in Western banks and real estate. When the final decision was being made by Marcos to either abdicate or fight the demonstrators outside the Presidential palace, Imelda Marcos reportedly asked her husband, "If we wipe them out, what will happen to our assets...
...study examined "nuclear decapitation," or the possibility that a surprise Soviet missile strike could wipe out the U.S. strategic-command system and prevent the President from ordering a retaliatory attack. Said one senior U.S. military officer: "This is the single most dangerous document I have ever seen." The Pentagon dispatched an official with a top security clearance to round up copies and destroy them in a high-security incinerator in the offices of the Joint Chiefs...
...cutbacks in domestic spending are anything but minor. The President proposes to wipe out completely a wide range of federal programs. The Interstate Commerce Commission, the Small Business Administration and subsidies to Amtrak form just a small part of the hit list. Reagan would also sell to private investors a clutch of federal assets, including Government petroleum reserves and five federal electric-power facilities...
...charged with operating a "ruling council" that controls a variety of illegal enterprises. The case, which Giuliani will try himself, uses the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to prosecute an entire organization, not just its leaders, and to confiscate its proceeds. "Our approach," he declares, "is to wipe out the five families...