Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...features black-and-white photographs of U.S. Government buildings (the IRS, FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs) and of police riot squads and jail cells. Each date is annotated with one or more reminders, trivial as well as grim, of the loss of freedom; few may recall that on Aug. 1, 1973, the Washington Post reported a private investigation launched by the Nixon White House on the Smothers brothers. Can Doublethink T shirts and Big Brother barbecue aprons be far behind...
Senators on Aug. 18. Since then, Soviet pronouncements have been issued in the form of communiqués in Andropov's name or through the official Soviet news agency TASS. A further signal that Andropov may not be well came last month, when he postponed a scheduled trip to Bulgaria...
...delivery: it came in an interview, rather than in an address made in person by the Soviet leader. Inevitably, there were questions about his physical and political wellbeing. "Where is the man?" asks U.S. Kremlinologist William Hyland. "Is he an apparition?" Andropov has not been seen in public since Aug. 18, and Hyland has noticed an uncharacteristic tendency of Soviet leaders recently to emphasize different aspects of Soviet policy with little apparent coordination. "That's just not the Soviet way," notes Hyland. "It suggests disarray...
...between Beverly Hills and the tour companies involves a 1922 city ordinance outlawing heavy buses from prowling streets designed for lightweight traffic. The bus companies had been operating under an exemption from that ordinance, but that was canceled in December 1982 when the state deregulated the tour industry. On Aug. 29, Judge Savitch restrained the city from issuing any more tickets until his hearing last week that reaffirmed the ban on buses...
...days. The audience was particularly interested because General Prospero Olivas, Commander of the National Police for Metropolitan Manila, would present the military's official version of the events that led to Aquino's murder seconds after he stepped off a plane at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21. Instead, there was yet another surprise in the brief but checkered history of a commission whose credibility has been assailed from the day it was created by President Ferdinand Marcos...