Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Although no fines or charges will be levied until after their return from Iran, the criminal division of the Justice Department will conduct and investigation into the case in conjunction with the State and Treasury departments, Havel said...
...everyone else's life but remaining happily, passively at rest himself. Mark Linn-Baker seems deliberately to make no more and no less of this character than Gogol did--which is to say, nothing, a personality-less cipher whose every action either fulfills the most hollow expectations of societal conduct or moves inertially towards a well-fed rest. Unable to choose, he mechanically makes love to both the mayor's wife and daughter--two primped peacocks immobile on a divan--until, deciding in a characteristically inverted way that the daughter is "very un-ugly," he asks for her hand...
...weeks, the chubby lawyer barely survived a string of no-confidence motions brought against him in the country's parliament. The immediate cause of Binaisa's overthrow was his attempt to dismiss Brigadier David Oyite Ojok as army chief of staff, reportedly because Ugandan troops, ordered to conduct house-to-house searches for arms in Kampala, had looted many of the homes. Troops loyal to Ojok quickly seized the radio station in Kampala and began broadcasting anti-Binaisa messages. After two days, the takeover was announced...
Shortly before 7 p.m., the terrorists pushed the body of a dead hostage out the door of the embassy. It was Lavasani; he had volunteered, to be the first victim. By murdering a hostage, the terrorists apparently thought they could force the British government to meet their safe conduct demand. Instead, at Whitelaw's command, the killing triggered "Operation Nimrod," for which the S.A.S. force had been preparing for several days. Within 30 minutes, some 20 S.A.S. commandos, clad in black and wearing hoods, gas masks and armored vests, attacked the embassy from the roof and from adjoining town...
Monday the mood of the terrorists changed sharply for the worse. They announced that they would kill one hostage every 45 minutes until their demands had been met. Having successfully dramatized their cause to the world, they now seemed mainly intent on securing safe conduct for themselves to a friendly country-a concession that the British government had decided not to grant them under any circumstances...