Word: frees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First there are the blond-haired good looks: striking but somehow wholesome, more high school prom queen than Hollywood glamour puss. Then there's the rich, honeyed voice: husky and authoritative, but free of the severe tone affected by some females in TV news. As a reader of the news, she is masterly: businesslike but warm, her eyes now wide with the drama of the day, now crinkling ever so slightly with concern. Diane Sawyer doesn't just deliver the news, she performs...
During the negotiations to free the Iran hostages, Sawyer's reports often wound up on the CBS Morning News. "I would sleep all night on two secretarial chairs so I could get up at 4 a.m., stalk the halls and see what I could get," she recalls. Her live exchanges with Charles Kuralt led to her being tapped as the show's co-anchor, and Sawyer made the leap from journeyman correspondent to network star...
...Tripoli crash may not have been caused by a mechanical malfunction. Flight 803 left Seoul and made trouble-free stops in Thailand and Saudi Arabia. Approaching Tripoli's airport in a dense morning fog, the pilot decided to land, even though only an hour earlier an arriving Soviet Aeroflot jet had prudently detoured to Malta. The KAL plane missed the runway by more than a mile, cartwheeled and slammed into two cars and two farmhouses...
Jaruzelski was expected to name Rakowski's replacement as Prime Minister this week. The government leader's most immediate project will be the lifting of a month-long wage and price freeze and the introduction of free-market prices for foodstuffs, measures that are also expected this week. The price plan, which was drawn up by Rakowski himself, met with strong opposition from the Communist Party, and with some reason. Over the past 20 years, food-price increases have triggered strikes, demonstrations and, in 1980, the formation of Solidarity...
...Gorbachev, approved a resolution endorsing plans to allow Lithuania and Estonia to manage their own economies freely, outside the control of central planners in Moscow. Baltic economists say they intend to develop Western-style market economies similar to those in Scandinavia, based on light industry and agriculture and free to sell or barter with other Soviet republics or foreign countries...