Word: death
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violence did not cease with Stalin's death in 1953. In 1981 Pope John Paul barely escaped assassination. It is believed in the highest circles of the Vatican that Gorbachev's Kremlin predecessors were the masterminds, though the Soviets deny this. The reason for the attack, claims a ranking official of the Holy See, was that the Polish Pope refused to accept the division of Europe into East and West. "The East bloc," says this official, "realized he was a destabilizing factor...
Nowhere is this creeping globalism more striking than in high-definition television. Six months ago, American electronics manufacturers were using apocalyptic terms to describe the race to build tomorrow's TV sets, calling it a life-and-death struggle for economic survival. But plans for a coordinated U.S. effort quickly got bogged down in arguments over technical standards...
...arrest comes at a time when the right-wing government, officially led by President Alfredo Cristiani but increasingly influenced by extreme right-wing politicians and death squads, has come under international attack for the escalation of human rights violations. Since a fierce rebel offensive began two weeks ago, the military and the right wing have responded with violent attacks on human rights organizations and trade union, indiscriminate bombings on poor villages, and harassment of religious workers. The most notorious of recent events was the murder and mutilation of six priests, their cook and her fifteen-year-old daughter...
...Death of a Salesman...
...choosing to sleep next to the derelict under the open sky rather than in Boesman's makeshift shack, Lena gives up a bottle of liquor for permission to do so. Nevertheless, a drunk Boesman kicks and hits the old man as he sits slumped over and near death...