Word: localities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more heat energy coming out of the experiment than had gone in. But they had to try the experiment five times before it worked. They did not even attempt to detect any neutrons being given off. And Georgia Tech's effort, patched together with deuterium from a local chemical outfit and palladium ordered from a Chicago precious-metals dealer, had a serious flaw. The neutron counter that indicated fusion was apparently not working properly. Said team leader James Mahaffey to the Atlanta Constitution: "I have really been in agony. The announcement was impetuous. The problem is that this is like...
Part of the insouciance about local politics, according to pollster Mervin Field, comes from sheer confusion. In a metropolis where as many as 85 languages are spoken, that extends from the perfumed hills of the Westside to the barrios of East L.A. and the ghetto of Watts, where state, county and regional authorities overlap one another, voters hardly know who's in charge. Bradley and the business community, his biggest supporter, seem to like it that...
That touched off one of the bloodiest incidents since Palestinians began their intifadeh in December 1987. Villagers said their tempers had flared earlier in the week when Jewish settlers uprooted trees in the area and Israeli soldiers patrolling the rural village shouted obscenities at local women. When word spread of Abu Gayadeh's killing, the enraged villagers poured out of their houses and attacked the policemen. "As we say in Arabic, patience has limits," said Ahmed, 45, a farmer who would give only his first name. "They pushed us to attack them...
...Takeshita Cabinet hovered around 10%, a postwar low. The Prime Minister's fall from public grace comes only partly from outrage over Recruit. The Japanese also bitterly resent a new 3% national consumption tax, part of a reform package that will eventually reduce taxes. In several recent local elections, these issues have badly hurt the L.D.P., which has been in power continuously since the party's formation in 1955. No less partisan an observer than Shintaro Ishihara, a senior member of the party's right wing, admits that if elections were held now, "it would be suicide for the L.D.P...
...fitful peace descended last week on Namibia as the longtime South African colony struggled to carry out its United Nations-supervised transition toward independence. There were only a few clashes between guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization and local and South African security forces; the fighting had killed 293 during the first three weeks of the transition. Some 1,000 SWAPO forces remained in Namibia rather than returning to bases more than 100 miles north, beyond the border in Angola...