Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determined that most of the 400 nearby homes are now safe for habitation. "The Love Canal area is ... as safe as other residential areas in industrial towns around the country," announced Dr. Clark Heath of the Department of Health and Human Services. Only those houses within a block and a half of the canal, many of which have already been razed, are still considered dangerous...
...Administration embarked on a risky new military-diplomatic venture in the Middle East, it was simultaneously trying to soften the impact of a wholly different foreign policy venture that had all the earmarks of failure. At issue: Ronald Reagan's on-again, off-again attempt to block construction of the $10 billion, 3,500-mile pipeline that will carry Soviet natural gas from Siberia to energy-hungry Western Europe. Washington's opposition to the pipeline, which the allies regard as essential to their economies, has opened a rift that threatens to undermine the solidarity of NATO. Thus, less...
...rural conditions and who pushed the military out of politics; by his own hand (a pistol shot to the head, officially called an accident but rumored to have been suicide prompted by despondency over a threatened investigation of government corruption); in Santo Domingo. Elected despite an army attempt to block the counting of ballots, Guzmán planned to give up his office next month, after becoming the first elected President in the country's 138-year history to pledge not to seek a second term. The military has said it will not interfere with the still scheduled transfer...
...this tense setting, one automobile driver created a panic simply by leaving his old red Mercedes double-parked for a few minutes in front of a building packed with refugees. The danger: the car might contain an explosive charge. One mother, an infant in her arms, sprinted a block and, with tears running down her cheeks, hid behind a stone wall. Then she ran another block. When the driver of the Mercedes returned a few minutes later, he found a crew of young men trying to take the car apart in search of a bomb...
...exposed a gaping fissure in an issue central to the Atlantic Alliance's very existence: how to deal with the Soviet Union. Meeting in Brussels last week, the leaders of the ten-nation European Community sternly warned President Reagan of the "adverse consequences" of his move to block or at least delay the planned $10 billion pipeline that is supposed to deliver natural gas 3,500 miles from Siberia to the heart of Western Europe starting...