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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first people to suffer a civil war even before the creation of our state." He was speaking, with grief and horror, of the photographs he had seen of the fighting in Tripoli. Like others throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, he was devastated at the sight of Palestinians killing Palestinians...
Twenty-two of the nation's newly elected mayors gathered at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics (IOP) last sight to begin a five-day "crash course" preparing them to run cities...
Soviet nuclear-powered submarines routinely ply the heavily trafficked sea-lanes off the U.S. East Coast, but few ever surface. Thus Navy pilots patrolling the Atlantic in a P-3C Orion antisubmarine aircraft early last Tuesday morning were astonished to sight a Soviet attack sub moving through rolling seas some 470 miles off the coast of South Carolina in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. The 341-ft.-long vessel was clearly having mechanical troubles, but it issued no international distress signal. Instead, the ship and its crew of about 90 men braved the winds and waves, bobbing, in the words...
...TIME'S Pacific Board of Economists during a meeting in Singapore. The economists predicted that virtually all the major Pacific countries will enjoy 1984 growth rates in the 4% to 8% range. Unemployment should edge downward in many nations, and no new outbreak of inflation is in sight...
These outbursts prompted New Delhi to impose President's rule, effectively removing power from local authorities. More than 3,000 government troops in Amritsar were then licensed to shoot on sight, arrest without warrants and even penetrate traditionally off-limits Sikh sanctuaries (a step they have yet to take). But the violence has not abated. Two weeks ago, 17 were killed and 133 wounded when terrorists derailed a crowded train. Since the bloodshed began last year, more than 150 people have been killed, and 150,000 Sikhs have been arrested...