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...been effective for eight and a half years and it had worked well," said Sullivan. "It had forced illegal condominium conversion to a halt...
...halt speculation, Modrow announced strict customs controls on the borders with the West. But East Germany's monetary crisis is likely to worsen, thereby increasing dependence on the deutsche mark -- and West Germany. Bonn, in the meantime, is withholding its promised assistance until it is convinced that East Berlin will introduce concrete and irrevocable reforms...
When Hurricane Hugo ravaged America's paradise from Guadeloupe to Puerto Rico, the tourism industry shuddered to a halt. After two months of eager, endless work, most islands have recovered, but devastated St. Croix is still struggling to rebuild its ruins -- and its image...
THERERIN lies the root of a growing controversy: Should taxpayers and their elected officials tolerate, and even fund, materials developed to halt the spread of AIDS that contain explicit sexual language and references to sexual practices that are frowned upon or feared by large portions of the population...
Images of the violation recur. When Berliners in the Soviet-run sector woke on the morning of Aug. 13, 1961, to find families sundered and the city rived by barbed wire -- and soon concrete -- many frantically sought routes of escape. The Berlin Wall was meant to halt a tide of migrants to the West that had left East Germany short of workers and threatened the stability of the Communist regime: more than 2.7 million had departed since the founding of the German Democratic Republic in 1949, 30,000 in July 1961 alone...