Word: northern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1980s by offering futures contracts on everything from foreign currencies to precious metals. But for all their sophisticated new financial products, the exchanges still use the old-fashioned, face-to-face auction system of making trades. The leader of the investigation, Anton Valukas, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, apparently decided that the system left plenty of room for rip-offs of commodities buyers...
...with Egypt cutting off a key Israeli port and massing troops along Israel's southern border, Syria shelling the northern border and both nations calling for war, Israel fought back. Israel won the West Bank and Gaza in that war and at the time indicated that it was eager to negotiate a peace settlement to give them back. The Arab leaders meeting at the time refused, charging "no peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel...
...first it looked like a lethal 10 million-to-1 long shot: both engines of a twelve-week-old British Midland Airways Boeing 737 bound for Northern Ireland apparently failed. The plane crashed just short of an emergency landing last week, killing 44 of the 126 aboard...
...poverty level. Supporters of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic hailed the resignations as a victory in their drive to change the constitution. Montenegrins identify very closely with the Serbians, considering them almost cousins. Montenegro's rebellion is expected to intensify economic unrest and rekindle tension between Serbia and the northern republics...
...head off retaliation by Sikh extremists, the government stepped up security in the capital and three northern states, including the Sikh stronghold of Punjab. The cremated ashes of the executed were temporarily locked away. To little avail. In the Punjab village of Badowal, militant bands of Sikhs raided the homes of Hindu workers, apparently selected at random, killing at least ten by gunfire...