Word: old
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This pressure comes at a time when the influence of right-wing death squads--some closely affiliated with President Alfredo Cristiani's ARENA party--is increasing. The most outrageous of the recent human rights abuses include the killing and mutilation of six priests, their cook and her fifteen-year-old daughter, at the hands of 30 men in military dress...
...route to Friedrichstrasse, a main Berlin crossing point, the subway train glides through two empty stations bricked up since 1961, when the Wall rose. The platforms are bare, eerily lighted by a few dusty neon tubes. East German border guards have learned to replace their studied sullenness of old with the occasional smile, but West Germans and others still must file through cattle-chute-like passport control points, and are made to exchange 25 deutsche marks ($13.50) for East German marks, at the usurious rate of 1 to 1, one-tenth the black market quote, for every day they spend...
Reunification is not on the current agenda -- not on East Berlin's nor on Bonn's. Certainly not reunification as old-fashioned nationalists still imagine it: a kind of anschluss of the G.D.R. by West Germany. "We did not throw off the Soviets to become a colony of the West," says Peter Grimm, a dissident writer...
...site was Boston College's Conte Forum--the one-year-old, state-of-the-art, 7800-capacity pride of B.C.'s athletic facilities...
Although none of the three houses with the new sets have yet been rewired, OIT decided to install the updated version when old telephones broke. "Some of the time when they were needed we went and put in the new ones for them immediately," Tassinari said...