Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deer hunt provides a change from the routine hazards of farming. Accompanying Bauer and his friends is an anonymous character known as "the city man" -- almost certainly Rhodes himself -- who accidently discharges his rifle. The bullet passes through the windshield of a truck and the crown of the driver's cap before channeling into the roof of the cab. It is a chilling moment, one in which to give thanks for a tragedy luckily averted and thanks that Rhodes was not similarly careless when reporting on the atom bomb...
...domestic policies guaranteed her a larger audience than Norway's 4.2 million people. But what really hurled her center stage was her appointment as chairman of the U.N. commission on the environment in October 1984. Nine hundred days later, the commission released what has come to be known as the Brundtland Report, a document so blunt and sobering that it abruptly forced the issue of global responsibility onto the international agenda. Since then she has shuttled around the world, addressing conferences, accepting prizes, chastising polluters, cheering reformers and establishing her potential to become one day the first woman ever...
...preside over the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Moscow's unease may in part explain the arrival of Soviet Politburo Member Yegor Ligachev in East Berlin last week. Moscow said the trip was long planned, but there was little doubt that the presence of Ligachev, a hard-liner known for his resistance to Gorbachev's reforms, could not help reassuring intransigent East Germany that its ties with Moscow remained solid. If East Germany was also quietly being urged to adopt a more flexible posture, Ligachev was the man to deliver the message...
COVER: When casino gambling came to Atlantic City, residents rejoiced. Now a town known for fleecing suckers looks like the victim...
...horrified television viewers around the world is the recurrent scene of helmeted policemen lashing black protesters with menacing whips. Admitting that the image problem was a primary concern, the South African government announced last week that police would no longer use the 3-ft.-long hard rubber whips, known as sjamboks...