Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan will win a second term because he has a positive view of the U.S. [NATION, Aug. 27] and Walter Mondale has a negative perspective. Mondale sees a nation that needs a handout, Reagan a country that is strong and building itself even stronger economically, militarily and morally...
...eavesdrop on radio transmissions from Alaska to the Far East were even more incredibly incompetent if they failed to spot the errant flight. He contends that these specialists must have been particularly alert since they were aware of preparations by the Soviets to test a new missile on Aug. 31 aimed at the Kamchatka Peninsula, where the airliner first flew over Soviet territory. "All electronic eyes and ears were directed toward the exact place," Pearson writes. "Far from slipping by unnoticed, KAL 007 had flown onto center stage...
...tide in the rough waters of the North Sea, it looked like a dead whale floating on its belly. But the Mont Louis, a 4,210-ton French container ship that sank on Aug. 25 after colliding with a German passenger ferry eleven miles from the Belgian coast, was very much alive with frenzied activity. Three tugboats buzzed noisily around it, while black dinghies delivered wet-suited divers. The focus of their labors: 360 tons of uranium hexafluoride, raw material from which nuclear fuel is made and which is not a severe radiation danger. Three barrels, however, contained uranium that...
Knapp's successor will be William Popejoy, 46, a longtime industry executive who was president of American Savings before F.C.A. bought the thrift in 1983. Popejoy will have no time to ease into his new job. F.C.A. reported on Aug. 15 that it has certificates of deposit worth about $15 billion that mature by the end of September. Popejoy must quickly convince investors not to pull out all that money...
...photographs showed a bikini-clad Princess Stephanie, 19, and Anthony Delon, 19, the bad-boy son of French Actor Alain Delon, frolicking on the beach "in tender insolence." But to Monaco's royal family the only insolence was in the behavior of Paris Match. The Aug. 17 issue featured an eight-page spread detailing the triangular affair of Princess, Delon and her longtime boyfriend Paul Belmondo, 21, son of the actor Jean-Paul. The palace went to court, claiming an invasion of privacy, but a French judge refused to stop publication. Huffed Nadia Lacoste, spokeswoman for the Grimaldis...