Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Korea in 1954 and now claims 3 million followers worldwide, a figure that some outside researchers consider inflated. The propaganda program has been taking place while Moon, 65, is serving an 18-month term in the Danbury, Conn., federal prison for income tax fraud; he is due for release Aug...
...loudest cheers over the brightening outlook came from Wall Street, where stocks had been sliding. On Tuesday the bulls broke loose again: the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 34.78 points, to record its best gain since Aug. 3; and more than 169 million shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, making it the sixth heaviest trading day ever. Said Harry Laubscher, a Paine Webber market analyst: "The bears had Thanksgiving, the bulls Christmas." After the big jump, profit takers moved in, and the market dropped for three straight days. Nonetheless, the Dow Jones average ended the week...
...week after General Fabian Ver, armed forces Chief of Staff, was named by the majority of an investigating commission as a conspirator in the Aug. 21, 1983, assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino, there were signs of a split in the military over the allegation. A pro-government Manila newspaper carried a full-page advertisement signed by 68 of the 83 general officers in the 200,000-man Philippine armed forces expressing "unwavering loyalty and support to General Ver." Conspicuously absent was the name of General Fidel Ramos, the acting Chief of Staff. Some of the officers whose names were...
...Then, on Aug. 21, 1983, came the Aquino assassination. "It was," Villegas observed, "as if a bunch of criminals entered the ICU and pulled the plug on the patient's life-support system." As Filipinos demonstrated in the streets, business confidence plummeted. The result: recession. Production is now falling at a 5% annual rate, and inflation is 45%. Said Villegas: "Suddenly, the Philippines is not sure whether it's in Asia or Latin America...
...year of suspense, the 54.5 million people of the Philippines had at last received an authoritative confirmation of their deepest suspicion: the military did it. Specifically, a fact-finding board appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos concluded that Benigno Aquino, the exiled opposition leader assassinated at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, only moments after his return to the Philippines, was not killed by Rolando Galman, the alleged Communist gunman who was identified by the military as the murderer. Instead, the board had come to another conclusion: both Aquino and Galman, who was gunned down seconds later on the airport...