Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard history professor has won the prestigious prize, which is awarded annually for excellence in journalism, fiction and non-fiction. Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn last year won his second Pulitzer in the history category for "Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution...
...restore economic health to the country. But today some 40% of the country's workers are unemployed and El Salvador's war against the Marxist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front sputters on, a point that guerrillas underscored by knocking out 80% of the country's electricity supply on election eve. Duarte's popularity in Washington, once a source of strength at home, is ridiculed today by many Salvadorans, who feel that U.S. advice and assistance have brought no solutions to national problems. To make matters worse, the Christian Democrats have been tarred by corruption: one of their Assembly candidates came...
...first the funeral seemed to be at least a melancholic pause in the long and bloody struggle between Ulster's Protestants and Roman Catholics. On the eve of St. Patrick's Day last week, an estimated 5,000 people had gathered at Belfast's Catholic Milltown Cemetery to bury three members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, the organization dedicated to uniting British-ruled Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. The I.R.A. trio had been gunned down March 6 by a unit of Britain's Special Air Service regiment in Gibraltar, where, the British government said, the three had planned...
...soon as the buzzer in the NCAA Championship Game went off, the horns in Philadelphia went on. Honk. Honk. The streets of Philadelphia were filled with the sounds of car horns and the shouts of people yelling from their doorsteps. It was New Year's Eve and the clock had struck midnight...
Seldom, if ever, was a leader of Israel under so much fire on the eve of an official visit to the U.S. In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, six casualties last week raised the death toll to at least 85, as Palestinians began a fourth month of rioting. At the same time, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was being pressed to accept a new U.S. peace plan that would initiate talks this spring with an international conference, settle arrangements for Palestinian self- rule, and begin by December to negotiate a permanent end to the occupation by handing back parts...