Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feelings of belonging together are as strong today as in the past." On the Eastern side, officials insist that the "German question" is closed forever and denounce any suggestion of reunification. But the longing is not dead among the population. A visitor to East Berlin was consulting a city map on a park bench when an elderly woman asked if she could look. "We can't get maps that show the West," she explained, "and I just wanted to see the whole thing again...
...shards, which they stored in a red-and-white plastic container. To mark the precise spot of each discovery, they poked bicycle spokes into the sand, then measured the distance between the spokes and fixed reference points. Knowing the exact location of each item will enable the archaeologists to map the site accurately...
...Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. Forced into a high-speed exit decision at a rotary, he soon realized that he had made a wrong choice. He was immediately and irretrievably lost because there were nothing but cross-street signs, so he could not find where he was on the map clenched in his fist. Cursing the lack of street signs, he asked a cabbie for directions. The cabbie told him he could not explain how to get to the hotel, but for a fee he would lead him. Disgusted, the explorer drove on and, coming to a fire station, parked...
Quickly capitalizing on the headlines, MicroProse has issued a revised edition of Strike Eagle that includes "Mission 8: The Anti-Terrorist Airstrike--Libya, April 14-15, 1986," complete with a printed map of the Libyan coastline, showing the location of suspected terrorist camps. True, the simulation is just a recycled version of the imaginary 1981 siege and is flown in an F-15 rather than the F-111s and A-6s used in the actual attack. Still, says MicroProse Executive Fred Schmidt, "it's a way to find out what it felt like over Libya, and, as our advertisement says...
...more and more insufficient. On the one hand, South Africa's imposition last month of a state of emergency reasserted its absolute indifference to gentle prodding from abroad. On the other hand, support for sweeping economic sanctions has been steadily mounting in Congress. The Administration is now trying to map out some middle ground between doing nothing and imposing tough sanctions. As Secretary of State George Shultz explained last week, Washington must act "in a manner that lends strength to our statements but leaves us in a position to exercise what persuasion...