Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...known as detente was in full flow, and high overhead the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft were locked in an orbital tango. Their commanders reached through the spaceships' air locks for a symbolic handshake, amid much talk that the superpowers were going to move from the space race of the 1960s to a new era of space cooperation. Despite efforts in that direction, little availed, and shortly after the declaration of martial law in Poland in 1981 the joint space agreements were allowed to lapse...
DIED. AL HANSEN, 67, 1960s visual artist who pioneered the avant-garde fusion of multimedia, music, homemade movies and staged events known as "happenings"; of a heart attack; in Cologne, Germany...
...Institute, warns, "In the post-cold war period, at a time when security ties are no longer holding the two sides together, trade disputes could become a way of life." Some might reply that U.S.-Japanese trade disputes have been a way of life since at least the late 1960s: experts count 30 or more agreements since then that have temporarily kept the peace. Now Tokyo is replying to the tough talk out of Washington mostly with we-can-work-this-out noises. But that in a way is just the problem: the Japanese seem to think Bill Clinton will...
Baldwin attended Harvard during the late 1960s,a time when student demonstrations against theVietnam War rocked the University. He stronglydefends former president Nathan M. Pusey '28, whowas criticized by many students at the time forhis handling of campus protests...
DIED. ROGER ZELAZNY, 58, author; of lung cancer; in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Armed with pyrotechnic prose and a stylish command of mythic themes, Zelazny broke new ground in science fiction as part of the 1960s "New Wave," which presented socially and psychologically complex views of the future, at sharp odds with the genre's traditionally upbeat portrayals of tomorrow. The winner of every major award in the field, Zelazny saw his grim vision of a postapocalyptic America, Damnation Alley, made into an uncompelling 1977 Jan-Michael Vincent film...