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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, HRAAA officials announced that Tutu would not be able to attend the Board's first meeting. University administrators sounded the "I told you so's," and HRAAA officials said they couldn't say when--or even if--Tutu would begin regular attendance...
...tide is also no laughing matter in West Germany. In keeping with its constitutional commitment to a united Germany, Bonn regards the refugees as citizens of the Federal Republic with full rights. Upon arrival, they receive $100, and within days they begin receiving unemployment benefits. West German citizens, who already must contend with a huge influx of ethnic German immigrants from Poland and the Soviet Union, are growing resentful of the refugee burden, which gluts the job market and strains housing resources. "The East German leadership carries exclusive responsibility for the situation," Chancellor Helmut Kohl charged last week. "We will...
...there is one more route into the '90s, it leads inward. That's the Call's unswerving direction. After a single play of their new album Let the Day Begin, you understand immediately and intimately why Peter Gabriel called them "the future of American music." The Call's music is not retrograde or nostalgic, but it does hearken heavily to the indwelling mysteries that Dylan and the Band and Van Morrison also heard. "The Call is a band for people who feel things extremely," says Michael Been, the group's songwriter. "We're not for people who are extremely cool...
Still determined to intercept those shipments of Swedish iron ore flowing south from Narvik to Hitler, Churchill then worked out a plan to lay mines along the Norwegian coast and even to seize the main Norwegian ports. That was supposed to begin April 8, 1940, but Hitler learned of the plan. British troops were already embarked in Scotland when the news came that the Germans were moving to land in both Denmark and Norway...
...fleet. And who had control of the skies? If there was any doubt, said Goring, his Luftwaffe could smash the Royal Air Force within a few weeks. Hitler thereupon ordered the Luftwaffe "to overcome the British air force with all means at its disposal," so that the invasion could begin Sept...