Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last major quake was on August 23, 1985, when a 7.4 temblor killed 71 people and injured 125 in the far western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region...
Reese dates the tide of Republican negative campaigning back to the time of the party's August convention. Dukakis was slow to respond partially because he "has a natural aversion to that kind of campaigning and I think he resisted it longer than his staff wanted," he says...
...FIRST SALUTE by Barbara W. Tuchman (Knopf; $22.95). The distinguished and eminently readable historian (The Guns of August) sets the American Revolution / against the struggles of 18th century Europe for colonies and commerce. Among her heroes: the hardy Dutch, who were first to recognize the birthright of the new American nation...
...psychiatrist or marriage counselor, for example, is still strictly taboo, and making such a step public can be politically damaging, if not fatal. Kitty Dukakis, wife of Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, thinks it a "sad commentary" that President Reagan referred to her husband as an "invalid" last August, after baseless rumors circulated that he had once sought counseling. "Everyone who needs help should be able to get it," she says. "It should never become a political decision...
Administration: Suzanne Davis, Susan Lynd, Clementina Allured, Hope Almash, Melissa August, Sharon Boger, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Eileen Harkin, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff News Desks: Douglas Dale, Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, John F. McDonald, David Richardson, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Joanne Waugh, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Mary Wormley...