Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...custody and how many of those were under 21. Declared Suzman: "South Africa has become like El Salvador and Argentina, where thousands of people go missing and the governments won't acknowledge where they are or whether they are dead or alive." At week's end Parliament adjourned until Aug. 18, depriving journalists for the next seven weeks of information elicited by the parliamentary questions of opposition legislators like Suzman...
...overnight cape temperature of any flight to date: in the 20s. This launch produced the most extensive ring damage. Morton Thiokol concluded in a postflight summary that "low temperature enhanced probability" of seal erosion. After testing the resiliency of the rings at various temperatures, the company told NASA on Aug. 9, 1985, that the rings did not even work properly at 50 degrees...
James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok was holding aces and eights when Jack McCall shot him point-blank during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. The fatal date was Aug. 2, 1876. Hickok did not have a chance to draw for either a full house or his life. The bullet went in the left side of his head and came out through his right cheek, leaving a crosslike exit mark. Pete Dexter's novel is packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall...
...nuclear arsenals stockpiled are thousands upon thousands of disasters far more horrible than the Chernobyl one." Gorbachev then disingenuously invited President Reagan to meet in Europe "or, say, in Hiroshima" to negotiate a test moratorium. He pointedly extended the Soviet Union's own ten-month test ban until Aug. 6, which marks the 41st anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. In Geneva, meanwhile, Soviet negotiators offered a plan for removing medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe...
...that have seriously polarized his country seemed even less assured. Before the government released more than 300 detainees still held under the emergency provisions, he said he would seek new legislation that would "enable the authorities to deal with continued incidents of unrest." The State President also set an Aug. 1 deadline to begin implementation of a United Nations independence plan for the South Africa-controlled territory of South West Africa, or Namibia. Botha made it clear, however, that the plan is still contingent on the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola...