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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision ignores South Africa's unique position in the world community. In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly voted Pretoria out of that body to protest apartheid and the illegal occupation of neighboring Namibia. While other totalitarian states can count on sympathy from at least a few other nations, South Africa is almost totally ostracized...
Having easily disposed of the weakling of the N.E. final four. UMass, by a 20-9 count, the Crimson last night made its fourth futile attempt this season to end Brown's regional dominance...
...good example is incumbent GOP Sen. John Chafee Rhode Island. He put as much distance between himself and Reagan as he could, but nonetheless is still awaiting the final count of absentee ballots to assure his reelection...
...novel by Vasili Aksyonov as if they were stocking up on candles before a storm. A first printing of 100,000 copies would vanish from the stores within 48 hours, and any magazine containing an Aksyonov short story, like his celebrated Halfway to the Moon, could count on the immediate sellout of a 2 million-copy press run. No other prose writer of the post-Stalin generation commanded such an impassioned following; no other offered a more radical departure from the standard Socialist Realist fare. His nonconformity came naturally. Aksyonov had been born an alien in the Soviet world...
...academic can usually count the number of job openings in any field on one hand with fingers left over. Finding a position in a region where one's spouse can also gain employment is therefore extraordinarily hard...