Word: augustness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years has trouble standing up. The Pentagon confirmed last week that the warheads from five MX's at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming were removed after one of the rockets slipped from its moorings and fell as much as a foot inside its underground silo last August. An investigation determined that the missile's fall was caused by "structural failure of a support skirt," a device that supports the MX while it rests in its silo. Though the stumble set off warning signals that would sound with the firing of an ICBM, a Pentagon spokesman assured that...
...PIANO LESSON. This stunning work by dramatist August Wilson, at Chicago's Goodman Theater, combines the emotional clout of his Pulitzer-prizewinning ( Fences with the haunting lyricism of his Joe Turner's Come and Gone...
...spring, the Communist Party led by Alexander Dubcek undertook reforms that now seem a distant forerunner of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost -- efforts to humanize the socialist structure, to encourage greater individual discretion. Euphoria bloomed in the "Prague Spring," until Soviet and other Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into town in August and crushed the hope...
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...
...economic policies and his efforts to stifle Walesa and Solidarity have failed. When the general was asked if he would be willing to meet with Walesa, whom he interned in 1981 for eleven months, Jaruzelski replied, "Never say never." Invited to participate in a dialogue with the government last August, Walesa refused on the grounds that Warsaw must first legalize Solidarity. Though Jaruzelski's proposal last week did not entirely satisfy Walesa's demand, opposition leaders predicted that the Solidarity leader will agree to join the talks. "If we blow it here, other people will have to deal with...