Year of double-digit Epic
Rule. First two words express the number of the year of double-digit.
Sarajevo(8)dear(4), The Winter Olympics are held .
Astonish(8) dead(4) of Yuri Andropov, next, Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Chemical(8) Iraq(4) weapons; Iran accuses.
Discover(8) AIDS(4) virus.
Olympics(8) away(4) Eastern countries, in Los Angeles.
Actively(8) Expo(4) in Louisiana.
Ethiopia(8) dead(4) famine.
Assassin(8) Indo(4) of Indira Gandhi:
Disaster(8) Indo(4), in Bhopal : A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide
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