Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change that is overtaking Eastern Europe. Poland was the first to move, electing a non- Communist government in August. In the past six weeks, upheavals have taken place in the Hungarian, East German and Bulgarian Communist parties. Nor were events in Prague the only remarkable developments that took place last week...
...Purges following the 1968 invasion wiped out all potential reformers within the party, and a continued hard line kept any progressive new party figures from emerging. The government also used Czechoslovakia's relative prosperity to buy off the workers, who proved reluctant, if not downright timid, about demanding change. Last week the workers listened to men like Havel and agreed to join in. Said a truck driver: "They showed us not to be afraid." That coalition of intellectuals, students and workers turned out to be an unstoppable force...
Never underestimate the ingenuity of a businessman out to make a quick buck. Last week two shipments of gray and white rubble, totaling 20 tons, were airlifted from Germany to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The Missouri entrepreneurs who imported the debris swear that it comes from demolished portions of the Berlin Wall. Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, they will split it into 2-oz. chunks to be sold, along with an "informative booklet and a declaration of authenticity," for $10 to $15 in gift shops and department stores...
...corner the market. William Bell, 22, a Munster, Ind., car salesman, and his uncle, Paul Wells, 37, a painting contractor from suburban Washington, have set up an import company to send out what they, too, say are nuggets of the famous barricade. According to Wells, Bell was in Berlin last week "chipping away." And along New York City's fashionable Fifth Avenue, two more entrepreneurs, David Schwartz and Edmond Howar, are undercutting the competition with their own purported pieces of the Wall. Price...
Before the nine-year-old daughter of Ernest and Regina Twigg of Sebring, Fla., died last year, following surgery for a heart defect, doctors made an unsettling discovery: Arlena Twigg was not their biological child. Last week genetic tests established that the Twiggs' real daughter is Kimberly Mays, who was born at Hardee Memorial hospital in Wauchula, Fla., at about the same time as Arlena...