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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congress won more Parliament seats in last week's elections than any other party, but fell far short of a majority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gandhi Resigns as India's Prime Minister | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...plane was flying along when suddenly it exploded, broke in two and fell in flames and smoke," said a witness, Alfonso Moreno, in an interview with Radio Caracol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jetliner Crashes Near Bogota, Killing 107 | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

...large waves. Between 1890 and 1930, more than 350,000 Polish peasants poured into the city to labor in the steel mills and meat-packing plants. Their descendants now live in the suburbs or in neat bungalows on Chicago's northwest and southwest sides. As Stalin's Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe after World War II, another flood of immigrants arrived, many of them soldiers who had fought with the Allied forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Polonia with Love | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...families' estrangement from the Government and anger at Pan Am began almost as soon as Flight 103 fell from the sky. As television displayed the plane's splintered wreckage, relatives were told to wait patiently for the State Department to return their calls. Some sat seething by their telephones for as long as three days while calls bounced between agencies. When relatives of John Ahern, 26, went to New York City's Kennedy Airport, they were directed to a livestock warehouse where his body was forklifted off a plane in a cardboard box. No Pan Am or Government representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Lockerbie Alive | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...Bond was trying to shift more than $9 billion in debt. When payment on Sotheby's bridging loan of $27 million fell due, he could not meet it, and Sotheby's rolled it over for another year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Anatomy of a Deal | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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