Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...palace and fired bursts of gunfire into the air while Namphy seized control. Five miles away, other troops surrounded the home of President Leslie Manigat, who promptly surrendered and was flown with his family into exile in the Dominican Republic. Thus Manigat's civilian rule, which had begun just 130 days earlier as an electoral sham, ended as a military farce...
Testifying before a congressional committee last week, James Hansen, an atmospheric scientist who heads NASA's Goddard Institute, riveted Senators with the news that the greenhouse effect has already begun. During the first five months of 1988, he said, average worldwide temperatures were the highest in the 130 years that records have been kept. Moreover, Hansen continued, he - is 99% certain that the higher temperatures are not just a natural phenomenon but the result of a buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other gases from man- made sources, mainly pollution from power plants and automobiles. Said Hansen: "It is time...
Washington strategists have begun to envision that scenario when talk turns -- as it increasingly does nowadays -- to Japan's growing influence. The very prospect of such pressure, however remote, is part of a subtle change in the way Americans view the Japanese. No longer is Japan seen simply as a tireless competitor and an endless source of high-quality goods. Japan's successes have been so spectacular that they seem ready to burst beyond economic bounds...
...used to blaming others, in particular the government, for shortages and other problems. Now, thank goodness, we have begun speaking not only of Stalin's personal guilt, but of the guilt of his entourage for crimes against the people. Let's be honest and admit that it was not only the ruling clique that was guilty, but the people as well, who allowed the clique to do whatever it wanted. Permitting crimes is a form of participating in them, and historically, we are used to permitting them. That is priterpelost. It is time to stop blaming everything on the bureaucracy...
...even in the Soviet Union. Jackson wrote this week's lead story in the World section on the special Communist Party conference that begins June 28. At that meeting, liberal reforms undreamed of in Jackson's early Soviet years will be debated openly. Journalists from around the world have begun to descend on Moscow for the event, their work aided by the proliferation of news conferences, press centers and ever helpful spokesmen. Jackson, however, will not be there to enjoy them. Instead, he will be in West Germany taking up his new duties as TIME's Bonn bureau chief...