Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) Party and defectors from the opposition party shouted obscenities, set firecrackers and otherwise proved so disruptive that each meeting had to be postponed. The sessions were intended to let former Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao, 61, who was deposed Aug. 16 by Gandhi forces, prove that his dismissal was illegal. The gatherings were also to be a test of political strength for Gandhi, who must call national elections by January...
...both delighted and dismayed by Jane O'Reilly's portrait of a Las Vegas ladies' room [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 27]. The article was candid, catty and refreshingly re-enacted. However, the sanctity of the powder room has now been violated...
...felt proud when I read George Plimpton's account of the Haitian marathon runner Dieudonne Lamothe, who came in last [SPORT, Aug. 27]. As a Haitian, I am accustomed to reading only bad reports about my people. Lamothe at least finished the race, which more than a quarter of the runners failed to do. After all, the point of the Games is to participate...
...Egypt and Saudi Arabia sweep their waters clean. Curiously, the extensive international search effort, involving some two dozen vessels and helicopters, has failed to find any mines. Nonetheless, according to the intelligence department of Lloyd's of London, 18 ships were damaged by mines between July 9 and Aug. 15. The U.S. plans to wind up its part of the operation this week, barring any new developments. "We gave it a full-court press," says a U.S. Navy spokesman, "and we just didn't come up with anything...
...space officials, the maiden launch of Discovery had been postponed three times. The original takeoff date of June 25 was put off when a back-up computer refused to answer a command. The next day a fuel valve faltered 4 sec. before blastoff, again delaying the mission. Then, on Aug. 28, the day before the third scheduled launch, a NASA engineer discovered that the computer charged with the last-minute double-checking of equipment might miss some critical signals. Blast-off was deferred for 24 hrs., as computer programmers scrambled to write a "patch" over the errant software instructions. Even...