Word: ago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late afternoon eight years ago, Griffiths Mxenge, a well-known black lawyer and antiapartheid campaigner in the city of Durban, was driving home when he stopped to help four men whose pickup truck had apparently broken down. According to an affidavit given to the police, the men abducted Mxenge, drove him to a field outside a nearby soccer stadium, stabbed him repeatedly and then left him to die in a pool of blood...
...coat wearers with shouts of "Shame!" Says Barker, who resigned last year as host of the Miss Universe pageant because contestants wore fur: "We want people wearing fur to be embarrassed when they walk into a restaurant. Fur is obscene, fur is cruel, and fur is archaic." Two weeks ago, the city council in Aspen, Colo., voted to put on the ballot an initiative that would ban the sale of fur in the trendy resort town. Says Aspen Mayor Bill Stirling: "As a community, we don't want to earn our sales- tax dollars from cruelty to animals...
...large U.S. installations at Subic Bay and Clark. Aquino, who was thought to favor the bases, may have to remove herself entirely from deliberating the issue. Says a White House official: "The chances of a satisfactory resolution were no more than 50-50 a couple of months ago, and they're less...
...Party. Since succeeding Milos Jakes as leader three weeks ago, Karel / Urbanek has seen the Politburo shuffled twice. Only a handful of the original members remain...
...faced by East European nations was formidable but not impossible. "Miracles cannot be expected," he warned, with specific reference to Poland. Nonetheless, he urged the creation of "small islands of prosperity" in the reforming economies of Eastern Europe that would be attractive examples and inspire imitation. "A few years ago, people in Hungary were pessimistic," he said. "They thought reforms brought only inflation and trouble. But now, and in East Germany and Czechoslovakia as well, the fear is gone and the people welcome change...