Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kipling notwithstanding, your special issue on Japan [Aug. 1] allowed East and West to meet in style...
...crew of the Rainbow Warrior for taking on the Soviet Union in its fight against the slaughter of whales [Aug. 1]. Perhaps next year Greenpeace, the environmental group that opposes whaling and ran the Rainbow Warrior expedition, can work on this side of the Bering Sea to stop the butchering of the poor walrus...
...Aug. 6, virtually all of the commanders of the country's armed forces gathered at the Guatemala City barracks of the Guardia de Honor, an elite army garrison. There were impassioned arguments for and against ousting Rios Montt, but gradually the plotters won. The decisive factor: the news that Sisniega Otero was once again planning to move against Rios Montt. Explains a Guatemalan journalist: "The ghost of another coup from the extreme right provoked this coup...
Reagan also tried to make the most of symbolic gestures. With great public flourishes he issued proclamations declaring Aug. 26 as Women's Equality Day and the month of August as National Child Support Enforcement Month. Stressing an issue that has been of concern to women's groups, he said, "It's a shocking fact that over half of all women who receive child support orders receive less than what they're due." Faced with inevitable congressional passage of a bill to make Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday, Reagan swallowed his longstanding...
...cover the multiplying elements and events. Defense Correspondent Bruce Nelan sought to put together details of the U.S. ground and sea exercises in and around Central America, but found "the Pentagon planning group that will work out the specifics with Honduras was not even scheduled to arrive there until Aug. 1." Nelan, however, was able to draw on information he had gleaned during a three-week trip in June through five Central American countries to assess the military situation. Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who wrote this week's Essay, could also call on firsthand knowledge gained from two recent...