Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's fuming debate over nuclear power, opponents had never spoken with such indubitable authority as Sacramento voters did last week. They became the first ever to vote, by a solid 53.4%, to shut down a functioning nuclear power plant. The decision, in a special referendum, put an end to the operations of the 15-year-old Rancho Seco facility owned by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Within twelve hours after the polls closed, SMUD directors, who had pledged in advance to abide by the decision, had started shutting down the plant 25 miles southeast of California's capital city...
Gorbachev's experiment in rambunctious parliamentary democracy adjourned, with moments of high drama to the very end. At the closing session of the Congress, Andrei Sakharov and Gorbachev squared off against each other. Sakharov called for removal of the constitutional provision giving the Communist Party the "leading role" in Soviet political life, while the Soviet leader accused the Nobel Peace laureate of trying to "belittle" the new parliament's achievements. There were also painful disclosures about the dreadful state of the Soviet economy. Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov admitted that some 40 million Soviets, or 13% of the population, live below...
...republics. "Our electors ordered us to take care of the sovereignty of our republics," declared Romas Gudaitis, a writer and deputy from Lithuania. Gorbachev was clearly exasperated by the Lithuanians' sudden departure, calling after them, "I ask you to be calm because this is not so simple." In the end, Gorbachev won passage of a compromise measure, placing the commission's charter in the hands of a group that includes leading dissidents...
...week's end at least 80 people, mostly Meskhetians, had been killed and perhaps as many as 1,000 injured. In addition, more than 400 homes, eight factories and six schools had been burned down. Some 11,000 Meskhetians had taken up residence in refugee camps, either because their homes had been destroyed or because they feared for their lives...
...Coleman, her mother and grandmother have filled time's crevices with waiting -- for a man to return, a new life to begin or an old one to end, for love to be reborn. The time is 1972, and a crisis has brought Zoe to her Wisconsin hometown. Avoiding the draft, her brother had fled to Canada; now he is a drug addict in a local mental hospital. Through him Zoe reawakens from the arid existence of the once loved; recapturing a tender moment they shared as children brings redemption. She learns that "love isn't something you wait...