Word: ending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Honecker regime, the special refugee trains were required to travel back through East German territory before depositing their human cargo in Bavaria. The face-saving yet ultimately self-defeating scheme was designed to permit authorities to engage in the fiction that they were "expelling" disloyal citizens. In the end, this petty legalism only encouraged more to flee. As the freedom trains slowed along hills and at curves, daring East Germans hopped aboard and joined the flight to the West...
...Cash is soaking with sweat and stomping the floor. His neck veins are popping and his eyes are bulging as he works his way from inmate to inmate, delivering a series of blistering, nose-to-nose tongue-lashings. At the end of Cash's 45-minute outburst, the frightened inmates run right out of their shoes into a dressing room -- and another bout of humiliation. As if on cue, an aide shows up with electric clippers and shaves the young men's heads. The inmates then strip naked, and an assistant sprays them with delousing fluid. All the while, Cash...
...warm, sunny day in Southern California, and at the Vic Braden Tennis College in Coto de Caza, 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles, a few dozen students are watching a most peculiar exhibition. At one end of a tennis court, a ball machine flings one ball after another across the net. Seated on a chair on the opposite side, a short, chubby man, racquet in hand, rises to meet each one, hitting it squarely with a looping forehand. Thwack. Thwack. The balls whiz back over the net, landing just inside the base line...
...week's end Texas Governor Bill Clements and other state leaders were getting ready to appoint a special study group to prepare proposals for the legislature, which must come up with a new school-financing plan by May 1, 1990. Everything from a hike in state sales and tobacco taxes to a first-ever state income tax is expected to be on the table. Similar cases are pending in Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee and New Jersey. These efforts to equalize spending within states, however, may be just warm- ups for a far more radical notion: equalizing spending...
...barks a lot but bites not at all," said opposition leader Ricardo Arias Calderon. On Thursday, Noriega ordered a crackdown to weed out traitors. That night, P.D.F. troops attacked the opposition headquarters and hauled away several people, including Endara. The opposition leader was later released and at week's end was holed up inside the Vatican embassy...