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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated that property damage could mount to $10 billion or more, probably surpassing the losses from Hurricane Hugo. Throughout the quake zone, residents awoke to a crazy quilt of destruction in which some buildings were leveled while neighboring structures survived intact. In San Juan Bautista the 125-year-old home of restaurant consultant Becky McGovern is situated only 100 ft. from the San Andreas fault. Although it bounced "from one side to the other," the house did not fall down. At Mariposa House Restaurant in the same town, owner Barbara Kuhl said her building "did the Shimmy, Shimmy...
...poor health that has plagued him since he underwent gallbladder surgery last August. But few East Germans doubted that Honecker had been pushed aside by a leadership increasingly nervous about the continuing exodus of refugees to the West and the growing clamor of the stay- behinds for reform at home. At the same time, the two Politburo members in charge of the economy and mass media also lost their posts, signaling that a more extensive housecleaning might be under...
...factions within the Communist Party, Krenz is indelibly marked as Honecker's creation. The son of a tailor, Krenz joined the Young Pioneers in his early youth and became a full-fledged Communist Party member by 18. He spent three years at the party academy in Moscow, then returned home to rise quickly through the party ranks. He has been a member of the party's Central Committee since 1973. A decade later, he joined the Politburo, gradually assuming responsibility for both youth affairs and the country's security apparatus...
...acknowledged that "problems in recent months had not been sufficiently assessed," he stated that the party would maintain firm control. "Socialism," he said, "is not negotiable." His only conciliatory gesture was a hint that travel restrictions might be relaxed. At the same time, he encouraged East Germans to stay home, and admitted that the flight of 135,000 citizens this year was "a draining of a lifeblood" that amounted to "a human, political and economic loss...
...first day, 250 city blocks were incinerated. Not until the third day did the last of the fires sputter down. By then 514 city blocks (4.1 sq. mi.) had gone, 28,188 buildings, including the homes of 250,000. Libraries, theaters, restaurants, courts, jails, the financial district, South of Market, the fabulous Palace -- all gone. North of Market, little remained of Chinatown but a labyrinth of underground chambers once home to brothels and opium dens. About 2,500 had died...