Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eve of the summit, the region's peace prospects had seemed anything but bright. Since the Arias plan was signed last August, its calls for regional cease-fires, democratic reforms and an end to foreign support for rebels have been virtually ignored. In Nicaragua, the contras last month launched the heaviest assault of the war. The Sandinistas, for their part, virtually ensured that the bloodshed would continue by refusing to talk directly to the contras and by flaunting plans for a military buildup. In El Salvador, meanwhile, leftist guerrillas pursued their struggle against the government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte...
...family knew he was an undercover agent but little else. His wife and his three daughters, now 25, 23 and 21, sometimes would not see him for weeks at a time. While Pistone's family was sitting at home on Christmas Eve, Donnie Brasco would be out "bouncing" around with mobsters, planning criminal scams from loan-sharking to extortion. Even getting home for a day required making elaborate excuses to his Mafia bosses. In a telephone interview, Mrs. Pistone, a 47-year-old former nurse, admits, "It was horrible. I was always having to do without my husband, making excuses...
Abbas Hamadei was captured last January at Frankfurt airport. One of his alleged kidnap victims, Schmidt, has since been released as a "goodwill gesture." As for Cordes, on the eve of the trial his keepers released his photograph along with a note urging West German authorities to "consider what happens in the coming days and draw the consequences." Bonn did not blink. Declared Klaus Arend, the presiding judge: "We would lose sight of our duty if we were to succumb to pressure...
Most troubling was the continuing decline of the dollar, which hit its lowest level in more than 40 years against the Japanese yen and the West German mark. On New Year's Eve, the dollar fetched only 121 yen, vs. 159 yen a year ago. The plunge was especially unsettling because it came less than a week after the Group of Seven (the U.S., Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and West Germany) issued a statement saying the dollar had fallen far enough. The central banks of some of these nations have been buying dollars heavily in exchange markets, but currency...
Late last week, after the Robins board of directors met for an extraordinary 5 1/2 hours on New Year's Eve and nearly six hours on New Year's Day, the company announced that the winner of the bidding battle was Sanofi. The second largest French drug company, which manufactures everything from Nina Ricci perfumes to pills that fight hardening of the arteries, will pay $3.08 billion. The price includes $600 million for a 58% interest in Robins and $2.48 billion that will be put into a trust fund to pay damages to Dalkon Shield claimants...