Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...departure from Iran was delayed by Islamic extremists two weeks ago. As the Iranians had promised, the French nationals were returned home last week just before the strange hijacking. The French government quickly disclaimed any responsibility for the three warships after they were turned over to Iranian crews on Aug. 1 and left French waters...
Framing a trio for murder "Priests killers captured," proclaimed the front page headline in the Guatemala City daily Diario Impacto on Aug. 4. That was fast work. According to stories that appeared in all Guatemala's major newspapers, the national police had taken only seven days to solve the murder of Father Stanley Rother, 46, the red-bearded Oklahoma-born missionary who was found dead on the floor of his rectory last month in the mountain village of Santiago Atitlán. Three Indians from the area were arrested and charged with the killing, which authorities said was committed...
...announced it was closing. A few days later, the Philadelphia Bulletin gave its unions until this week to accept $5 million in contract concessions; otherwise it, too, would shut down. Now the New York Daily News has announced that its year-old afternoon paper, Tonight, will stop publication on Aug. 28. Thus was written the latest chapter in a two-decade-old story of failure in the afternoon, this time with the loss of 320 jobs on the nation's largest metropolitan newspaper. But the significance of the Daily News decision went beyond its ill-fated evening edition...
...evening edition never hit a consistent editorial stride; at first it was so badly organized that it was hard to find regular features. Says one former staffer: "They started Tonight on Aug. 18. By Labor Day it was clear that management was already uncomfortable with the paper." Tonight underwent a major cutback and editorial overhaul in June, when Felker departed. Some of the paper's special sections were cut in half and distribution to outlying suburban areas was curtailed. As Hunt put it later: "Storm clouds were coming up in the financial numbers." In recent weeks Tonight staffers...
...green-roofed shopping pavilions that form the year-old Harborplace: two-story, block-long, translucent pleasure domes where visitors can be seen from outside swarming in rhythmic schools like the angelfish at the nearby National Aquarium in Baltimore, a dazzling, $21.3 million piscine habitat that was formally opened Aug...