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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost one year ago, attorneys for Stop & Shop first approached the city, expressing an interest in purchasing Riverside Rd. in order to construct a Stop & Shop superstore. The company already owned a smaller store on adjacent land but needed extra space for its larger building...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: City Councillors Angered By Stop & Shop Proposal | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...identified the men as members of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, an organization of Young Turks that was thought to have been disbanded after its leader, the renegade former Lieut. Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan, 41, staged the coup that nearly toppled President Corazon Aquino more than two years ago. The second set of letters stood simply for Soldiers of the Filipino People. Asked what they were up to, one marine said, "We are here for our country." And then they began to take it by force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Soldier Power | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Like a video tape on fast forward, Prague was racing through a revolution so quickly that even the participants could barely keep track of developments. The opposition never stopped to bask in celebration. Since its inception three weeks ago, the Civic Forum has emerged as the most single-minded and uncompromising opposition force in Eastern Europe. Last week, as the Communist leaders tried to mollify their countrymen, the Civic Forum kept up the pressure, meeting each new concession with more demands and deadlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: What Have You Done for Us Lately? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...nightmare began nearly seven years ago. In the early-morning hours of Jan. 11, 1983, Nancy Cruzan's car swerved on an icy and deserted Missouri country road. The car flipped and crashed. The 25-year-old woman tumbled out and landed facedown in a ditch. Medical help arrived promptly enough to save her life but not fast enough to save her oxygen-deprived brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Whose Right to Die? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...capital and may sever its links with the country's major port. The government is conscripting women and children and threatening to divert all development aid to mobilization. At gunpoint or with threats of confiscating ration cards, soldiers dragoon crowds for "patriotic" rallies. Mengistu narrowly missed assassination two months ago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: A Wounded People Starves | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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