Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every eleven years the sun's outer layers erupt in a blaze of turbulent magnetic storms, characterized by an increase in sunspots and fiery explosions known as solar flares. In February 1980, on the eve of one such outburst, NASA launched an instrument-packed scientific satellite called the Solar Maximum Mission. Nicknamed Solar Max, the spacecraft was to photograph and monitor the sun's activity, which even at a distance of 93 million miles can disrupt global communications and power transmissions, influence weather and endanger space voyagers...
...election propaganda faded, the rattle of gunfire in the background grew louder. Both the 30,000-member Salvadoran army and some 10,000 members of the Marxist-led Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) launched election-eve offensives, each claiming that the tide of the four-year civil war was turning in its favor. Some 4,000 Salvadoran troops fanned out through the country's eastern departments, where the guerrillas are dominant, to harass the rebels and to protect the elections. For their part, the elusive guerrillas launched a countercampaign under such slogans as "No to the Electoral Farce...
...last Thursday's strike was a series of bombings in at least ten locations around the capital, including banks, a police station, an army barracks and a site near the U.S. embassy. But Sendero's splashiest success so far was a well-coordinated New Year's Eve bomb attack that blacked out all of Luna at midnight...
...FILM ADAPTATION of John Irving's novel The Hotel New Hampshire starts off with all the promise of a New Year's Eve party--the right people (Jodie Foster, Nastassia Kinski and Beau Bridges are among the more illustrious members of the cast), the right settings, ranging from New Hampshire and Vienna to New York, and most important for New Year's Eve parties, and all other fantastic, the promise of illusion...
...West German diplomatic missions. Another East German gesture was a quiet decision to begin dismantling some of the automatic firing devices aimed at preventing escapes along the border. East Germany has turned control of Berlin's entire surface rapid-transit system over to West Berlin. On the eve of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov's funeral in Moscow last month, Chancellor Kohl asked East German President Erich Honecker to dinner and reissued a longstanding invitation to him to visit West Germany...