Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iran and Iraq have little to be proud of in their conduct of the 42-month-old war in the Persian Gulf. Iraq shoulders the blame for starting it all, invading Iran in a reckless attempt to seize some long-disputed border territory from the new and untried revolutionary government of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Iran, having repulsed the invasion, has taken the war into Iraq in hopes of forcing the downfall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the creation in Baghdad of an Islamic republic modeled on Iran's own. Iran has routinely executed large numbers of Iraqi...
...record industry stuck on the border between the ruins of punk and the chic regions of synthesizer pop, Thriller was a thorough restoration of confidence, a rejuvenation. Its effect on listeners, especially younger ones, was nearer to a revelation. Thriller brought black music back to mainstream radio, from which it had been effectively banished after restrictive "special-format programming" was introduced in the mid-'70s. Listeners could put more carbonation in their pop and cut their heavy-metal diet with a dose of the fleetest soul around. "No doubt about it," says Composer-Arranger Quincy Jones, who produced...
Germans against seeking asylum in West German diplomatic missions. Another East German gesture was a quiet decision to begin dismantling some of the automatic firing devices aimed at preventing escapes along the border. East Germany has turned control of Berlin's entire surface rapid-transit system over to West Berlin. On the eve of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov's funeral in Moscow last month, Chancellor Kohl asked East German President Erich Honecker to dinner and reissued a longstanding invitation to him to visit West Germany...
Gaus, now a television interviewer, goes on to suggest that younger Germans should imitate the merchants of the 19th century, who helped unite Germany by using trade to break down territorial barriers. Similarly, he says, peace movements on both sides of the border could "perhaps revive the national identity of Germans...
...older is the main task of the million or so agitatori attached to the Soviet Union's 176,982 electoral commissions. During the 60-day preparation for the elections, teams of two or three agitatori visit every household, from the fruit farms of Moldavia on the Rumanian border to the Eskimo fishing villages of Kamchatka on the Pacific. Some ward-level political banter takes place during these house calls. Irate voters are likely to grumble, "The hot-water system doesn't work here" or "When are we going to get a bigger apartment?" Since all urban dwellings...