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Fear increases the divisions within the society. Severing telephone lines, limiting travel and banning the sale of gasoline to private motorists has served to separate friends and families. The political situation has also driven wedges between people-between workers who wanted to strike and workers who wanted to surrender; between...
DIED. Margaret Culkin Banning, 90, prolific fiction writer of 40 books and hundreds of stories on changing lifestyles; in Tryon, N.C. Banning was a pioneer in choosing such topics as mixed marriages, birth control and interracial relationships as subjects for pop fantasy.
In an attempt to tighten its control of the nation, Poland's ruling military council issued a new series of decrees, putting some factories under the army's control, banning some newspapers, outlawing the sale of gasoline (which can be used in hand-made bombs), and prohibiting the sale and...
In September the Sandinistas declared a "state of economic emergency," banning strikes, profiteering and the distribution of news or information deemed to be injurious to the economy. The government also increased its attacks against the Superior Council of Private Enterprise, known by its Spanish acronym COSEP, which represents the beleaguered...
The nuclear discovery undermined Moscow's intensive courtship of the Scandinavian countries, aimed at banning nuclear weapons from their territory as a matter of principle. It was the final embarrassment in ten days of humiliation.