Word: brought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...targeting the lush and peaceful enclave of Escalon, which spreads elegantly along the western fringes of the capital, the insurgents brought the war home to the wealthy. Using luxury cars as barricades against the army's armored personnel carriers and light tanks, the rebels seized about 40 houses. For the most part, they carefully obeyed F.M.L.N. orders not to harm civilians. American officials warned F.M.L.N. representatives in Mexico City and San Salvador against endangering the lives of U.S. diplomats. None were hurt, but some envoys had close calls. On Thursday a chartered jet evacuated 234 civilian workers and dependents...
...going to get rid of the Israelis is with force," says a young activist from Nablus. "We have to make them suffer." So far, Palestinians have succeeded in killing 42 Jews, most of them civilians. The activist says several hundred more will have to die before Israel can be brought to the negotiating table...
Arafat's excruciating conversion earned the P.L.O. a dialogue with Washington, but brought on nightmares in Jerusalem. Pressure mounted from the Bush Administration and American Jews, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir finally countered with an initiative last spring that calls for elections among Palestinians in the territories. Representatives chosen there would negotiate a period of autonomy with Israel, to be followed by the promise of talks on a final settlement...
Velikhov and Arbatov are, in fact, both advisers to Gorbachev. They came to the TV set straight from a stormy government meeting and brought with them a sense of reality that put The Blue X Conspiracy in perspective. While waiting ^ for a reply to a hot-line message to Washington, the Soviet team agreed that, however complex and serious, the problems in the simulation paled compared with those Gorbachev faces in the real world...
That is bad news for Wall Street, where buyouts have propped up stock prices and brought in fat advisory fees. Faced with a drop in the number of mergers and acquisitions, which fell 29% during the July-September quarter compared with 1988's third period, major investment firms have announced the layoffs of nearly 2,000 employees in recent months. Particularly sharp cutbacks have come at Shearson Lehman Hutton, which is dismissing 800 of its nearly 37,000 workers and said last week it would reshuffle its top management...