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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opposition supporters handed out leaflets urging people to stage similar displays during a 24-hour general strike Wednesday to protest election fraud and violence by supporters of military ruler Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega...
Nuclear weapons deter their own use. Arguably that is all they are good for. But tactical nukes, because they frighten allies whom they are supposed to protect, are good for even less. In fact, these weapons are good for nothing except as bargaining leverage to remove similar Soviet missiles in Eastern Europe. Thus the current furor is surprising only in that it took so long, and so much pressure from the left, for a West German Chancellor to adopt Kohl's present position...
...Helsinki the conferees were following the lead of the U.S. and European Community, which agreed to a similar proposal earlier this year. The new sense of urgency stems from the growing recognition of the importance of the stratospheric ozone layer. It absorbs some of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, which has been linked to skin cancers and cataracts...
...contact with water. "Even the ancient Egyptians knew this rock was not in good condition," notes Sayed Tawfik, chairman of the EAO. Repairs in the early 1980s used cement, which introduced water to the limestone and trapped existing water inside. More recently, workers have used dry limestone powder, similar in composition to the original rock, to strengthen the base of the Sphinx. One proposal from the Getty Institute's Monreal: place the entire statue under a protective canopy for several months at least, while exploring alternatives. The Ministry of Tourism vetoed that idea...
...Soviets and their allies disentangle themselves from conflicts in Namibia and Cambodia, they are making diplomatic inroads in the Middle East and China. "Shevardnadze has mastered the foreign policy agenda," says Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's W. Averell Harriman Institute of Soviet Affairs. "He is of a similar creative mind as Gorbachev, not simply his tool...