Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...street gangs swarmed through the crowd, attacking everyone around them. Audience members struck back with metal chairs and whatever else came to hand, until police armed with batons broke up the concert. Forty-five people were injured, including a man who was stabbed. The rioting was the fourth major outbreak of violence on Run-D.M.C.'s "Raising Hell" tour this summer, following earlier incidents in Pittsburgh, New York City and St. Louis that left 39 injured...
...exhausted fire fighters have hardly let up since the conflagration began, late last week uncontrolled blazes still raged over thousands of acres in Oregon, and major fires were still burning in Idaho. It was, according to Jim Fisher of the Oregon department of forestry, the region's most serious outbreak of wildfires in 30 years...
...being an honest broker. The erosion of the American image of fair-mindedness, says a high-ranking Egyptian official, risks "the destruction of goodwill accumulated over many years." Secondly, though they understand the U.S. reaction to terrorism, the Arabs are shocked that the U.S. appears to blame the outbreak on the entire Arab world. Says Ashraf Ghorbal, a former Egyptian Ambassador to Washington: "Terrorism has become the lens through which the Americans look at the Middle East." The Saudis were particularly offended by the intensity of the arms-sale debate in the Senate, and at one point asked the Administration...
...industry has been hurt more by the outbreak of international terrorism than the airlines. Advance bookings on U.S. carriers flying to southern Europe have plummeted by about 50%, analysts say. Pan Am, the largest U.S. overseas carrier, is now fighting back with a security program called Alert to reassure passengers that the skies are safe. Pan Am has formed a security force, which will begin patrolling its international terminals on June 12 and whose services it will sell to other airlines. Pan Am says some of the squad's units will be armed, but it will not specify how heavily...
...Israel's coalition government seemed ominously fragile. The carefully crafted alliance called for Prime Minister Shimon Peres of the moderate Labor Party to rule for 25 months and then switch places with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the rightist Likud bloc, for another 25 months. Last week an outbreak of name-calling and political pique showed just how delicate that arrangement could be by propelling the government into its latest crisis...