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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Half a dozen firefighters took control of the rescue, opening the outer door to the shaft, shutting off power and telling Lonoff to open the inner door of the elevator and climb down...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Administrator Held Captive | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Lonoff succeeded in opening the door by turning a hand-operated mechanism, then slipped out the chamber and descended the remaining three-and-a-half feet to the C level floor assisted by a firefighter "who very gallantly lent me his shoulder...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Administrator Held Captive | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...Arrival at the Loeb. Ford and VanDyke bang on the door. Three cast members of "Death of Santiago" cautiously let the two in once they see the SafeStreets reflective sashes. Apparrently, the caller has decided to go it alone but the escorts search both sides of the theater anyway. Mission aborted. The escorts head back into the rain...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: Walking to Take Back the Night | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...banned independent trade union and to allow Poland's first partly democratic elections since 1948. In Phnom Penh, Soviet client Viet Nam announced that it would end its occupation and withdraw all its troops, estimated at some 60,000, from Kampuchea by the end of September. That opened the door to a broad rapprochement between the U.S.S.R. and China, which had bitterly resisted the Vietnamese encroachment. Beijing made the Vietnamese pullout one of three conditions for making up with Moscow (the others: an end to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and resolution of conflicts along the 4,500-mile U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Moscow Scales Back | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Half a world away, equally momentous but even more uncertain changes were coming to Kampuchea. More than a decade ago, with the U.S.S.R.'s blessing, Viet Nam invaded its next-door neighbor. Hanoi may eventually have tired of the unending war, which has cost it 50,000 casualties. But in the past few years, Gorbachev has had compelling reasons to withdraw Moscow's support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Moscow Scales Back | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

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