Word: returned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election that will clear the way for more free trade worldwide, Canadian voters last week decided to return Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his Progressive Conservative Party to power. The final results showed the Progressive Conservatives getting 43 percent of the popular vote and 170 seats in the House of Commons, followed by the Liberal Party with 31.9 percent and 82 seats and the left-leaning New Democrats with 20.4 percent and 43 seats...
Next month the movement to return Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenian control will attempt to broaden its character by transforming itself into a Baltic-style Armenian All-National Movement. Like similar organizations in Estonia and Lithuania, the group will officially be committed to supporting perestroika, though its agenda may not be identical to Moscow's. So far, the group's organizers have not announced a specific program, but they are expected to press for issues such as more Armenian-language instruction in schools, greater economic independence for the region, and the right to establish embassies in other Soviet republics with cities...
...December 1986, Kazakh youths rampaged through Alma Ata to protest the appointment of an ethnic Russian as party first secretary of Kazakhstan. In July 1987, Crimean Tatars demanded the right to return to their homeland on the Black Sea, from which they were removed in 1944. Last February, Armenians and Azerbaijanis began to clash over control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave south of the Caucasus. And last week in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, the local supreme soviet turned down constitutional amendments proposed by Moscow and voiced new demands for sovereignty. Two days later, the Lithuanian supreme soviet...
...addition to his short-yardage skills, Reidy also proved to be a game-breaker. He had the Crimson's longest run from scrimmage (51 yards), longest pass reception (55 yards) and longest kickoff return (42 yards...
...over now, if only for a short time. You can finally return safely to your television, newspaper or weekly magazine. The intense coverage is gone. No, not the presidential campaign, but something even more sinister--the relentless onslaught of the life, times and--most emphatically--the death of President John F. Kennedy...