Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of nationwide strife that forced the fall of General Sein Lwin on Aug. 12, after only 17 days in power, the appointment outraged the students and Buddhist monks who sparked the uprising against an autocratic regime. The government's failure to move toward a multiparty democracy led to renewed calls for a national strike this week, leaving Burma poised for another plunge into the violence that, by unofficial estimates, had already claimed 3,000 lives...
...political system persisted. In Mandalay, in the north, an estimated 100,000 people -- out of a population of only 600,000 -- rallied to demand democracy. In the capital 15,000 demonstrators appeared in front of Rangoon General Hospital, where two doctors and three nurses were slain on Aug. 10 by security forces. Though armored vehicles patrolled Rangoon streets, troops kept a cautious distance from protesters...
...Aug. 30, 1968. Soviet tanks are parked near Prague's Old Town Square, ready to disperse the young people gathered around the mournful statue of Jan Hus, the 15th century religious reformer who was burned at the stake as a heretic. Looking down on the tanks from his third-floor office on Parizska (Paris Street), Jiri Ruml tells me, "We failed. The next attempt at reform will have to come from the center, from Moscow...
...extraordinary reform movement known as the Prague Spring. He reported on the enthusiasm that Party Leader Alexander Dubcek's vision of "socialism with a human face" had aroused among factory workers, and wrote scathing pieces about the ominous Warsaw Pact army maneuvers taking place in Czechoslovakia that summer. On Aug. 21, those exercises had turned into a full-scale invasion...
...officials debated last week whether to return to the old 140-kilometer (87 m.p.h.) highway limit when the trial ends early next month, police records indicated that the speed reductions were saving lives. The Interior Ministry reported that 1,067 people died on Italian roads between July 1 and Aug. 15, down 4.4% from a year...