Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have so far prevented the U.S. corporate departures from causing the widespread loss of jobs, specifically black jobs, that South African officials had often predicted. The entire GM work force of 3,000, for example, 60% black, will stay on the job at the company's Port Elizabeth assembly plant under the new ownership...
...April of 1984 the elder Goldfarb exchanged farewell presents with an American friend, U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff. This led the KGB to ask Goldfarb to invite Daniloff to his apartment, apparently so agents could plant documents on the reporter. Unlike another Soviet acquaintance of Daniloff's, Goldfarb refused. The KGB then raided Goldfarb's apartment, seized his bacteria collection and accused him of planning to take material "of national security importance" out of the country...
Lara, author of If You Plant Winds, You Will Harvest Storms, a 1982 book profiling three leaders of the Colombian rebel group M-19, told reporters she had no idea why she was detained. "Maybe they didn't like the book," she shrugged. From mid-1983 to early 1984, Lara worked as a correspondent in Havana for Caracol Radio, a Colombian station, leading some to speculate that the INS suspected her of ties to the Castro government. But Lara pointed out that she entered the U.S. earlier this year on the same visa, which was issued last fall in Paris...
...meet the requirements, GM had threatened to close some of its big-car factories, including Detroit's Clark Street Cadillac factory and the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird plant in Van Nuys, Calif. The company organized a letter-writing drive among more than 10,000 workers, local officials and state legislators that resulted in a cascade of mail to the Transportation Department during the past year. A GM statement last week said that the Government's leniency was "good news for American consumers and autoworkers" and "in keeping with the requirements of both the law and the real world." That...
...search of such medical bounty, Mark Plotkin, director of the World Wildlife Fund's plant program, has spent months at a time living with the Tirio tribe on the Suriname-Brazil border, studying the little-known plants the shamans use to treat patients. "Each time one of the medicine men dies," he says, "it's as if a library has burned down...