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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since January, three Cambridge police officers have been suspended because of incidents ranging from driving while intoxicated to sexual assault of a minor...
...hoisted over the ruins of Berlin in 1945 leading the way. Young soldiers wearing World War II Red Army uniforms followed, carrying vintage rifles and submachine guns. Behind them, enveloped in clouds of white diesel smoke, rumbled armor and artillery from the '40s: T-34 tanks, SU-100 assault guns and truck-mounted Katyusha rockets once known as "Stalin organs...
...Prime Minister. Since he led his Congress (I) Party to an overwhelming victory in last December's parliamentary elections, Gandhi has made significant concessions in an attempt to bring Sikh political leaders to the negotiating table. He released Sikh leaders who had been held in detention since the army assault on the Golden Temple, ordered an independent inquiry into the massacres that followed his mother's death, and lifted a ban on the All-India Sikh Students' Federation, the most radical Sikh group. To little avail: his efforts have been stymied by factional wrangling among moderates and extremists for control...
...badly wrong. "All it has done in the voting area is fight black voters," says Armand Derfner of the Joint Center for Political Studies. The division has cut back on enforcement of housing-discrimination laws, challenged even voluntary school- busing desegregation programs, and is now making an all-out assault on the affirmative action employment agreements that it actively helped fashion in previous Administrations...
...long imagined that a showdown in Central America might begin that way, and Washington was assembling a fleet of 39 warships for counteraction on the other side of the isthmus. On D day next Tuesday, 2,000 Marines will storm ashore from amphibious assault craft onto an isolated strip of sand near Puerto Castilla, on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. They will secure a beachhead for troops of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, who will be flown in by helicopter the following day. By the end of next week, about 10,000 American troops will have gone into action...