Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman in a subdivision named Country Green tells of well water so cruddy that it broke her washing machine three times. Outside a small house near by, Francisca Jimenez, mother of eight, casts an eye south toward the Mexican countryside she left eleven years ago. "I was better off there than my children. At least we never lacked for water or sewer." Illness in the colonias is running at Third World levels. In some areas, with nearly every well lying dangerously close to sewage flows, the hepatitis rate is close...
...Emperor's health has been treated like a classified military secret. The current jishuku is just too much." Leftist radicals showed their disgruntlement by setting two tiny bombs at subway stations only a few blocks away from the moated palace where Hirohito lay ill, and spraying red paint near the entrance to the tumulus of the Emperor Jimmu, who may be a mythical figure but is thought by many Japanese to be first in a dynastic line stretching back nearly 2,600 years...
White families living near the Sleds insist they are not racists. But, they say, they are afraid that the Sleds may be followed by other black families, that white residents will move, then property values will plummet, and the neighborhood will deteriorate. "I'm afraid of what could happen," said one 75-year-old woman. Until 1972 she and her husband lived in Austin, a Chicago suburb that went from predominantly white to predominantly black. "We had to sell our home for nothing," she said. "What happens if this whole doggone neighborhood gets up and leaves...
Those levers furnish Pretoria with plenty of coercive power when it chooses to exercise it. But the catalyst for this current burst of public summitry is the prospective agreement for the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola and finally the granting of independence to Namibia, now near consummation in Brazzaville. Many states in the area are just as eager as South Africa to speed the departure of 50,000 Cuban troops from Angola as a prelude to ending the 13-year Angolan civil war between the Marxist government and South African-backed UNITA rebels. The attraction of sharing credit...
Compared with other government anterooms in Moscow, the lobby of the three- story, neoclassical building just across from the Zoomagazin pet shop at 22 Kuznetsky Most Street exudes a civilized calm. Near the entrance a red-and- gold sign proclaims that the public is welcome 24 hours a day. Two guards politely answer questions, and visitors can leaf through the neatly arranged newspapers while relaxing on comfortable brown leather sofas. This paragon of bureaucratic efficiency is the reception center of the Committee for State Security, better known by its initials...