Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...established a committee to draft an amendment to the constitution that would define the Sikhs as a separate religion. Sikhs immediately responded to the new development by calling off the burning of 100,000 copies of the Constitution, which they had scheduled for this week. At last a breakthrough seemed possible. -By Laura López. Reported by Dean Brelis/New Delhi
...that represents mercy. The firm made the first advanced 35-mm camera produced in Japan in the 1930s and stayed with these relatively slow-selling models for decades. But after moving into calculators and copiers in the 1960s, Canon applied its electronics know-how to cameras and devised the breakthrough AE-1. The company followed up in 1979 with the Sure Shot, a highly popular $100 pocket camera that automatically focuses itself by using an infra-red beam to measure the distance to the subject. Then in 1982 came the $60 Snappy 20, an easy-to-load 35-mm model...
...July 2, after my resignation, a breakthrough finally came in the crisis over Lebanon. After intensive negotiations, the Syrians, the P.L.O. and the Israelis were prepared to leave Lebanon at the same time. Lebanon's security would have been internationalized. The Lebanese government was ready to function on behalf of all the factions in Lebanon...
...condition: the withdrawal of some 25,000 Cuban troops from neighboring Angola. Last month representatives of the South African and Angolan governments negotiated a historic cease-fire in the smoldering, nearly 18-year-old war along the Angola-Namibia border. This raised new hopes for a breakthrough in the long-stalled negotiations over Namibia. Then last week in Havana, Angola's Marxist President, José Eduardo dos Santos, and Cuba's President, Fidel Castro, unexpectedly issued a joint communiqué setting forth terms for a withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola...
...north, in Angola, South African troops were withdrawing from a five-week offensive against guerrilla bases of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), following the negotiation of a joint South African-Angolan disengagement agreement. That had opened the door to a once inconceivable breakthrough in Southern Africa's knottiest diplomatic problem: achieving independence for the South African-controlled territory of Namibia. The developments were a sorely needed foreign policy victory for the Reagan Administration. After three years of deep involvement in all of the negotiations, the U.S. policy of "constructive engagement," or soft-spoken diplomacy with...