Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wyoming, investigators thought they just might have found the poisoner's first victim. Jay Mitchell, 19, of the town of Big Horn, failed to turn off the alarm clock that he had set to buzz at 6:30 a.m. on July 26; his father tried to awaken him, but young Mitchell was dead. Tissues from his body were sent for analysis to a busy laboratory in Utah, which concluded a month later that Mitchell had died of cyanide poisoning. Reviewing records last week and checking with authorities in Chicago, Pathologist William Doughty, of Sheridan County Memorial Hospital...
...Harvard Mormons agree on more than just the issue of shorter missions. Their experiences as missionaries appear remarkably similar. In part, their community of experience reflects the fact that Mormon missionaries throughout the world adhere to identical schedules and perform nearly identical activities. Six days a week they awaken at 4:30 a.m. and then spend three hours studying the Bible, proselytizing skills and the language of their mission country. From 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. they engage in teaching the gospel to anyone who is interested. Teaching continues until 9:00 p.m., when the missionaries eat dinner...
...talk of leaving, but you know damn well they're thinking it." An even less kind truth, of course, is that Falkland Islands life had already begun to slide away from its idyllic memories long before the Argentine invasion. The occupation, in fact, may even have served to awaken the islanders to the already present dangers. The Falklands population had continued to decline over the past decade as the uncertainty over and escalation of Argentina's claims grew. The political insecurity also served to dry up new investment. There were other signs of less satis faction with...
...erosion of Meese's authority was accelerated by a series of political blunders. While Reagan was vacationing in California last summer, Meese decided not to awaken him when U.S. jet fighters shot down two Libyan planes over the Gulf of Sidra, thereby creating the impression that Reagan was not running the shop. During the President's vacations this summer, either Baker or Deaver is set to help Meese at the California White House. Meese was also responsible in part for getting the President to endorse tax-exempt status for private segregated schools, a policy that Reagan...
...agents of the Public Security Bureau seemed intent on terrorizing their victim, and they succeeded. It was 1 a.m. when they marched into Peking's sprawling Friendship Hotel, where many foreigners working in China live. The police told room clerks to awaken American Teacher Lisa Wichser, 29, and tell her that an urgent telegram had arrived for her. When the petite, sandy-haired and somewhat sleepy Wichser appeared to claim it, she was handcuffed and hustled without explanation into a police car. Technically, at least, the graduate student from Noblesville, Ind., had not been arrested. She was merely being...