Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Residents reported hearing heavy gunfire Saturday night near the presidential palace in what appeared to be fighting between military factions...
...warning for Mexico's northern coast and the southern half of the 370-mile Texas coast from Brownsville to Port O'Connor, including 250,000-resident Corpus Christi. A hurricane watch remained in effect for the remainder of the Texas coast, from Port O'Connor north to Port Arthur near the Louisiana border...
...year-old Hanson, a specialist in Near Eastern religions, takes over Dudley amid a dispute over the direction of Harvard's only non-resident house between the previous masters and the College administration...
...effort is made all the more urgent because by the year 2000, nearly one-third of Harvard's senior faculty will reach retirement age. And unless the percentage of minorities who receive Ph.Ds increases in the near future, educators say, the number of minority professors will not increase that much in the long term...
...NATO fighters, mostly F-16s, whose pilots must practice the ground-hugging tactics they would use in battle. In the past seven years, 20 F-16s have crashed in West Germany, several in populated areas and one a bare ten seconds' flying time from a nuclear power reactor near Landau. Three aircraft crashed on a single day in July. For the past three years demonstrators have protested the Ramstein show as a symbol of the low-flight issue; they marched outside the base the day before the disaster...