Word: april
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 19-20, The Women of Brewster Place: a preacher propositions a woman after his sermon. The next scene features them in a sex act. On an NBC program titled UNSUB, April 7: Bishop Grace murders two teenage girls in his congregation. On NBC's Quantum Leap, April 7: a scene in which the series' hero is preparing for sex with his live-in lover has Amazing Grace playing in the background. On NBC, In the Heat of the Night, Jan. 31: Rev. Haskell, who dies, had been having an adulterous affair with one of his parishioners...
...death of Hu last April precipitated a crisis. When expressions of grief sparked in Tiananmen the demands for greater democracy, differences between the factions left the leadership impotent to take a united stand on how to cope with an unprecedented event. As the leaders dithered, the protest swelled...
...year history as a bold, pushy trading enclave, the business of Hong Kong has been business. The colony was a place where foreigners and Chinese alike came to make money and get away from the political turmoil on the mainland. But since the student movement blossomed in Beijing last April, Hong Kong has been galvanized. It has found an identity at last, and it is Chinese...
...most recent case is Burma, which has just renamed itself Myanma (pronounced Mee-ahn-ma), the name the Burmese, oops, the Myanmans, have always preferred. In April Cambodia, which since 1976 had been known as Kampuchea, became Cambodia again. That was the fifth time in the past 20 years that the country has changed its name. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian resistance leader who is notorious for his own shifting stance on his country, has at least found a way to keep up with its changing names. When he speaks English, he calls the country Cambodia. When he speaks Khmer...
...copies, but the lost investments turned into tax write-offs for the backers. Gingrich's wife Marianne was paid a salary of $11,500 for her work in helping establish the partnership. Democrats filed a formal complaint about the book deal with the House ethics committee in April; Common Cause joined in last month, and Gingrich expects the issue to be taken up this week...