Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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West German officials said they would press East Berlin to let the new arrivals leave for the West...
...commission suffered from the $491 millionin budget cuts ordered by Dukakis for fiscal year1990. Eight of its employees have been laid off,says Judith K. Wright, press liaison for MCAD...
...cities directly under the national government's jurisdiction. There, a lobby notice in the Hilton hotel duly conforms to official policy: WESTERN NEWSPAPERS ARE UNAVAILABLE. But upstairs, there they are. The hotel's televisions air the supposedly banned daily news shows of ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN -- all broadcasting press conferences by Chinese dissidents who have escaped Beijing's dragnet...
...Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 brought forth A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; 1924 saw both the tenderly brooding What'll I Do? and the valse triste All Alone. His courtship of heiress Ellin Mackay, granddaughter of an owner of the Comstock Lode, was breathlessly followed in the press, and their secret marriage in 1926, over her father's vigorous objections, made headlines. It also made standards like Always...
...Paris, UTA chairman Rene Lapautre said a terrorist bomb "was the most probable" explanation for the crash. Hours later the Muslim terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Two weeks ago, the Lebanese and French press reported that pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon have threatened action against France for reneging on an alleged 1988 deal to trade a jailed Arab terrorist for the release of three French hostages held in Lebanon. The French government denies making any deal to free the hostages beyond agreeing to restore diplomatic relations with Iran. At week's end an unknown group calling...