Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mandela and De Klerk chatted, a virulent outbreak of black-on-black violence continued to spread in Natal province. Officials said at least 71 people have been killed since Dec. 1 in a turf war involving A.N.C. and Buthelezi supporters. Pan-Africanists have warned that they would join in fighting the A.N.C. if it strikes a separate deal with De Klerk. What Mandela can do to unite blacks and lead them into negotiations will be better known when he is out of prison and able, for the first time in a quarter-century, to act freely...
...part of a campaign to prevent an outbreak of measles on campus, University Health Services (UHS) is advising any student, staff or faculty member born since 1957 to be revaccinated against the disease...
There has to be some explanation for the Crimson's collapse after the first period. Did some Yalie prankster tie Harvard's skates together? Was there a sudden outbreak of tuberculosis in the locker room? Did a drunken Zamboni driver miss a spot...
...giveaway fractured the foundation of the landmark 1986 tax-reform law. The drain on the Treasury could be compounded when the measure reaches the Senate, where it is expected to pass, and Democrats try to extend the tax breaks on individual retirement accounts. It seemed like a classic outbreak of "now-nowism," as Budget Director Richard Darman, who helped broker the deal, labels the nation's hunger for immediate gratification...
...next day in Berlin, in the ornate Kroll Opera, where the Reichstag had met ever since a mysterious outbreak of arson gutted its traditional headquarters in 1933, Chancellor Hitler arrived wearing the "sacred coat" of the German infantryman and used the crudely faked fracas in Gleiwitz to justify his invasion of Poland. "For the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our own territory," he told the brown-shirted deputies. "Since 5:45 a.m. we have been returning the fire, and from now on bombs will be met with bombs...