Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if the latest Andropov statement means what it seems to, it will hardly bridge the gap between the superpowers' positions in Geneva, since the U.S. refuses to count the British and French nuclear forces in the INF talks and since the Soviets are making their offer contingent upon the cancellation of all new Pershing II and cruise missile deployment. Moscow's central purpose is almost surely to impress West Europeans with its flexibility and thus to encourage opposition to the installation of those new American missiles, due to start later this year...
...American Humane Association found that 413,000 cases of child abuse had been reported to state and local authorities that year. By 1981 the count had doubled to 851,000. Last year it climbed...
...million people, roughly one-third of the Continent's population, in a terrifying 2½-year rampage. The disease has largely disappeared today because of improved sanitation, measures to control the rodents that carry it, and the use of antibiotics to combat the plague bacillus. At the last count in 1980 there were 505 cases worldwide...
...downfall surprised no one except perhaps himself. Rumors of plots to oust him had circulated so often during the 16-month rule of Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt that observers lost count of the actual attempts. Had there been seven? Eight? Ten? Whatever the tally, last week's coup turned out to be for keeps. After a brief gun duel outside the National Palace in Guatemala City, the country's military leaders toppled Rios Montt and replaced him with Defense Minister Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores...
...tube into the mother's uterus and into the fetus' head to drain off the surplus fluid inside its brain. Guiding many of these technological innovations is the ubiquitous computer, which can synthesize a mother's voice as easily as it can measure eye movements or count the times that young Gery sucks on his nipple...