Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief interest was the Soviet Union, and he had more experience dealing with that country than any other American in history. His first visit to Russia was in 1899, during the reign of Czar Nicholas II, when he accompanied his father on an expedition that reached Siberia. His last was in 1983, at the invitation of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov. In between he negotiated his own private mineral concessions with Trotsky and spent more time with Stalin than any other American. Nikita Khrushchev liked the old capitalist so much that he jokingly offered...
...more than a generation, Haitians lived with the fear that they could be arrested, tortured and executed at any moment. The reign of terror was directed by a ruling clique whose armed squads were on call for round-the- clock executions like some killing machine. Although violence is still common in Haiti, that kind of despotic killing ended in February when President-for- Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fled to France. Last week Haitians got a close-up look at the inner workings of the killing machine...
...drop in the surplus resulted from Japanese imports during June of $1.33 billion worth of gold, most of it American. The Japanese plan to use the gold to mint special commemorative coins to celebrate the 60th year of Emperor Hirohito's reign. Without those onetime gold sales, America's deficit with Japan would have been about $4.5 billion, a new monthly record...
...begin preparing for the annual party convention in the fall. Takeshita, along with Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, 62, and L.D.P. Executive Board Chairman Kiichi Miyazawa, 66 -- both prominent leaders of rival L.D.P. factions -- said that they would go along in principle with a brief extension of Nakasone's reign as party president, but objected to giving him a full, two-year third term. Confronted by the Prime Minister's impressive mandate at the polls, however, they may waver. Nakasone is a talented coalition builder, and he now has the undivided support of Japan's Western allies. By the fall, when...
...Universal Chronicle of Metz. The only Pope who never existed even in legend was John XX, whose nonexistence apparently occurred because John XXI (1276-77) was mistaken about the number of his predecessors. John was a bookish type who ordered a special cell built for his studies; his reign was cut short when the ceiling fell...