Word: lethal
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...threats of planted bombs. At least 16 police officers have been slain in unprovoked attacks. In San Francisco last week, as some 400 friends, relatives and fellow policemen gathered for the funeral services of a patrolman who was shot to death during a bank robbery, a bomb exploded, hurling lethal nails into the air. Astonishingly, no one was hurt. In racially tense Cairo, Ill., one night last week, as many as 20 rifle-carrying blacks in Army fatigues attacked the police station three times in six hours. Near by, arsonists set two stores ablaze, and when fire equipment failed...
...CFIA and the students who assault it have in common this disregard for the sovereignty of national boundaries, with continents no different from campuses. Ideology, free-world ideology or revolutionary, sweeps away the restraints of diplomacy. The delineation of the world into good guys and bad guys was lethal in the Vietnam episode to those diplomats trying to assert themselves over military bureaucrats and national security analysts...
...guess I'm too depressed to be mad," said Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics and member of the CFIA. "How could you have anything but strong feelings when the place where you spend ten hours every day is the site of a purposely placed lethal event...
...greatest weakness. Police claim that they opened fire on the students only in self-defense. But the report clearly condemned the ferocity of police response. "Even if there was sniper fire-a question on which we have found conflicting evidence," it stated, "the 28-second barrage of lethal gunfire . . . was completely unwarranted and unjustified." The commission also cast doubts on police contentions that they had fired over the heads of the crowd. Both of the dead students, it observed, were at ground level. One was found lying on the side of the street opposite the alleged sniper's window...
...Lead is lethal. Once used as a paint base, for example, it poisons hungry slum children who like to chew bits of old paint from their flaking tenement walls. Last year two such children died and an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 were affected in New York City alone. But lead poisoning is hardly confined to slums. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of Canadian researchers has now analyzed an insidious source of the ailment: glazed earthenware pottery...