Word: reopening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mopping-up that followed, MiG 21s swooped low over the city, and helicopter gunships hovered over the rooftops to prevent new crowds from gathering. Police cars with mounted loudspeakers toured commercial areas urging stores to reopen. Behind them along the same routes came other, private vehicles; their drivers and passengers shook their heads as a signal to the shopkeepers to ignore the appeals. Still, by week's end an estimated 85% of Kabul's shops had reopened, most government workers were reluctantly back at their jobs, and the city warily came back to life...
...district to the alleyways of the Shorbazaar in the Old Quarter, thousands of shopkeepers had first closed their doors on Thursday to dramatize their resentment against the Soviet invaders. Shouting anti-Soviet epithets and antigovernment jeers, the merchants repeatedly defied attempts by Afghan police to force them to reopen their shops. When thousands of other citizens poured into the city center to support the merchants, they launched a series of vehement protest marches. Green Islamic banners were unfurled as marchers snaked through the shuttered streets with cries of "God is Great!" and "Death to the Soviets...
Both Harvard and Yale stand at 1-2 and the Crimson will reopen its season in New Haven, Conn., Hanuary 29. "If we can win that one," said the coach, "we'll get everybody coming to our place...
Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School will reopen Monday under heavier-than-usual security, a week to the day after the stabbing death of a student there...
School committee chairman Alice Wolf said the decision to reopen school Monday was made after "all different components who will be here--students, faculty, security people and administrators--" agreed to the schedule...