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...Britain. Neighboring South Africa kept Rhodesia -- now Zimbabwe -- supplied with arms, gasoline and vital consumer goods while acting as middleman for the country's tobacco exports. In 1977 the U.N. banned arms sales to South Africa to protest apartheid, and independently, many countries restricted their economic ties in the mid-1980s. Still, South Africa's economy has prospered...
...paths their siblings chose. The boomer group is so huge that it tends to define every era it passes through, forcing society to accommodate its moods and dimensions. Even relatively small bunches of boomers made waves, most notably the 4 million or so young urban professionals of the mid-1980s. By contrast, when today's 18-to-29-year-old group was born, the baby boom was fading into the so-called baby bust, with its precipitous decline in the U.S. birthrate. The relatively small baby-bust group is poorly understood by everyone from scholars to marketers...
...radio and TV stations in the U.S. To provide more diversity on the airwaves, the Federal Communications Commission that year adopted rules giving minority applicants preference in acquiring new station licenses and in taking over failing stations. The Reagan Administration tried to kill the rules in the mid-1980s but was blocked by Congress. Under George Bush, the Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to declare such race-based policies unconstitutional...
Service 7 also conducts an estimated ten to 15 break-ins every day at large hotels in Paris to copy documents left in the rooms by visiting businessmen, journalists and diplomats. These "bag operations" first came to the attention of the U.S. Government in the mid-1980s. One U.S. executive told officials about a trip to Paris during which he had made handwritten notes in the margin of one of his memos. While negotiating a deal with a French businessman, he noticed that the Frenchman had a photocopy of the memo, handwritten notes and all. Asked...
...majority under Israel's system of proportional representation, which also perpetuates the dominance of longtime leaders. The candidates are chosen by the party, voters cast their ballots for a party, and parliamentary seats are allotted to each faction according to its share of the total vote. Since the mid-1980s, the electorate has been evenly split between right and left, making a decisive outcome all but impossible...