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Thousands of East Germans disillusioned by 40 years of communist rule and skeptical of promised reforms continued to flood from their homeland, with more than 50,000 reaching West Germany since Saturday. Proreform groups pleaded with their compatriots to stay and help "build a real democratic society...
...Maine ballot included an advisory measureto ban cruise missile testing in the state, whileSan Francisco, in danger of losing its Giantsbaseball franchise, decided whether to build a new$115 million stadium to replace Candlestick Park
Based on CIA documents, NBC described Israel's cooperation with South Africa in building and testing a nuclear-tipped missile in exchange for a steady supply of enriched uranium. On October 26th, its Pentagon Correspondent Fred Francis told Tom Brokaw that "privately, senior U.S. officials are confirming that Israel does have a secret relationship with South Africa to build Doomsday weapons. The sources tell NBC News that Israel ignored Washington's discrete protest and appears to be expanding the secret relationship...
...budget-cutting axe. In 1981, the federal government spent $33 billion on direct housing assistance. By 1989, it had been slashed to $8 billion. During the 1970s, the federal government built anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000 units of low-income housing per year. This year, it will build...
More nuclear proliferation to worry the West: the prospect of the unpredictable Kim Il Sung with an A-bomb. Fears that North Korea might build one have escalated recently since U.S. spy satellites detected construction of what may be a nuclear reprocessing plant in Yongbyon, 56 miles north of the capital, Pyongyang. Such a unit would enable North Korea to produce plutonium, the raw ingredient for nuclear weapons...