Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Relatives and friends insisted that the shooting was accidental. Said TV Producer Grant Tinker, Moore's estranged husband and Meeker's stepfather: "Both Mary and I had talked to him that day. He was never more 'up.' " Said Linda Jason: "I know it wasn't suicide. He was the happiest he's ever been." According to friends at work, Meeker bought the gun to hunt rabbits. Said his father Richard, a TV executive in Sacramento: "He just liked guns. He had them all over the place. It was just one of those things...
...entire world must know that Saddam's army has acted without mercy, without pity, like Hitler's army." With that fuming condemnation of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Iran's Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i opened a diplomatic front in the Persian Gulf war last week by taking his country's case to the United Nations. Addressing a session of the Security Council, Raja'i charged that "the cruel and despotic regime of Iraq" has bombed schools and hospitals in "its killing of innocent people...
...Iran's demand that the U.S. apologize for supporting the late Shah, he said, had already been met "in practice." He added: "All it needs is probably to put something on paper." Raja'i was even more conciliatory when he spoke of the hostages' families. "I know how they suffer," he said. "When a person is kept against his will in a foreign country, the grief is much harder...
...They took our land, and now we will take their lives." The merchant looked up at one of the omnipresent portraits of Saddam Hussein on the wall and handed his visitor a stack of propaganda from the ruling Baath Party. Said he with a smile: "If you want to know what the Iraqi people think of the war, just read this...
...Mother Teresa, by declaring that he was accepting only on behalf of "the people of Latin America, particularly the most poor, the most humble, the Indians, peasants and workers." Asked whether his award would affect the way in which his country is ruled, he replied: "I don't know." Others were less pessimistic. "It will restrain those who brutalize, and end indifference," said José Westerkamp, a fellow Argentine civil rights activist. Added Robert Cox, the British-born former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, who is currently a Nieman Fellow at Harvard: "Here is an ordinary person showing...