Word: fatalism
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...Fatal Mistake. But Amin's bloody purges of enemies real and imagined claimed at least 20,000 lives-and perhaps as many as 90,000-and finally convinced the Lugbaras that their turn as targets was bound to come. Sure enough, Lugbara soldiers and officers started disappearing from barracks last year and dozens of others were slapped into the infamous Makindye prison outside Kampala on conspiracy charges. Last month the bullet-riddled body of Lieut. Colonel Michael Ondoga, who as Foreign Minister was the highest-ranking Lugbara in the government, was found floating in the Nile...
Publicity literature supplied by Rock- well International, a defense contractor, quotes Admiral Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as saying, "Without the B-1 to replace the aging B-52, the triad of our defenses will suffer a serious and perhaps fatal imbalance in the 1980-90 time period...
...Baltimore three years ago, the parents of a newborn Mongoloid baby refused to allow an operation to correct a fatal defect in the infant's digestive tract. Despite pressure from doctors and hospital personnel, they refused to change their minds, and the child slowly starved to death...
...always kind of watching the audience, though, as much as the actors, to see how they're responding. There's a great deal of tension, of course. But first nights are always exciting. This first night? That is something I would never commit myself to. There's nothing more fatal than saying you feel good about a first night. It probably means the whole cast will come down with flu, and the scenery will get burned. We're working hard, shall we say. Let's just leave it at that...
...Stoppard averred that this is no age for message in the theater. "One writes about human beings under stress," he said, "whether it is about losing one's trousers or being nailed to a cross." To risk a play whose primary level was philosophical, he added, "would be fatal." In Jumpers, that is just the gamble he has taken-in London with triumphant results. Now the play has opened in Washington, D.C., for a limited run at the John F. Kennedy Center...