Word: june
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flinging stones at tanks. Streets blockaded by burning tires. Helmeted troops firing into crowds of rioters. Night after night, such images once gave television viewers around the world a chilling picture of South Africa's racial and political turmoil. But when Pretoria declared a state of emergency in June 1986 and imposed tough new press-censorship regulations, the scenes of violence suddenly disappeared. So, to a large extent, did television's interest in the story. As a result, there has been a significant drop in network coverage of South Africa...
...largest PPV companies, Viewer's Choice (which reaches 5 million homes) and Request Television (more than 4 million), each offer customers a monthly program slate filled largely with movies. But the business's new boomlet has been propelled mainly by special events. Last June's heavyweight title fight between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks was sold to nearly 600,000 TV homes on a pay-per-view basis at an average $35 a crack. Wrestling matches have proved an even bigger draw. Wrestlemania IV had a reported 900,000 takers last March (the largest audience yet claimed...
Hinton says he plans to graduate next June and move on to a conservatory for more intense study...
Early in 1984, he says, the Libyan government offered him a consultancy, and in June he signed a five-year contract with the energy ministry. His salary was $200,000 a year, plus periodic raises, bonuses and a commodious house in Tripoli. "I am working 365 days for them, any time they need me," he says. "And I have to make this Rabta project. I saw it as a nice object, very clean, a big one. And I say, 'Why not?' And I start planning with them the technology center." What Barbouti may not have known was that the Libyans...
...emergency springs primarily from Central America. Since last June, 30,000 Nicaraguans fleeing war and economic misery have flocked to the U.S. That number could be dwarfed by the tens of thousands expected to arrive in the U.S. in 1989. As a result of Moscow's liberalized emigration policies, some 50,000 Soviet citizens, primarily Jews and Armenians, will be allowed to leave the U.S.S.R. this year; most will be headed for the U.S. Several thousand of the 5 million Afghanistan refugees camped in Pakistan will also emigrate...