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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tensions died down by Saturday, when 2,500 union members and their supporters from around the nation joined the dwindling band of Austin strikers for a peaceful parade and rally in the small city (pop. 23,000). The police kept out of sight as both the march and a subsequent rally went off without a violent incident...
...guests who gathered last week on the roof of the garage at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles were treated to a strange sight. As a chorus line of cheerleaders kicked and a bevy of multicolored balloons rose in the sky, a huge cloth dropped to reveal a two-story model of a camera. Polaroid was pulling out all the f-stops to introduce the Spectra, a new instant camera that will sell for a steep...
...signs, both serious and frivolous, that the good life is not what it used to be. Rolls-Royce and Mercedes automobiles are appearing in used-car lots. In boom times, the skies over Houston during rush hour were filled with helicopters ferrying executives; today the choppers are a rare sight. Last week, in an effort to cheer its customers, the tony La Colombe d'Or restaurant offered a four-course lunch pegged to the price of a barrel...
...part of an animal, even less part of a savage beast. It's green and rough, like the bark of a tree." Starving, Velasco manages to capture a small gull: "It's easy to say that after five days of hunger you can eat anything." He cannot stomach the sight of the dead, bleeding bird, torn apart by his own hands. He experiences alternating highs and lows, sometimes throbbing with the will to survive, then praying for an end to his punishment. His "days of solitude" convince him "that it would be harder for me to die than...
...split into factions. Most of all, the South Korean economy has boomed even as the Philippine economy collapsed. While 20 years ago the average Filipino earned almost three times as much as his Korean counterpart, now the figures are exactly reversed. Nevertheless, many Koreans have taken heart at the sight of a right-wing dictator undone by nothing more forceful than U.S. pressure and peaceful protest. "They know the parallels with the Philippines are not there," says a Western diplomat in Seoul. "But they are taking encouragement from it anyway...