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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearby Seneca Army Depot. Calling themselves the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, the women, mostly white, well educated and feminist, sought to pattern their demonstration after the Women's Peace Camp protest at England's Greenham Common, a projected site for U.S. cruise missiles. There, several thousand women have assembled, on and off, since September 1981. But by last week the Seneca protest had mainly managed to provoke an angry clash of cultures in a conservative rural community...
...Europe has been sweltering this summer as temperatures have soared into the 90s. But the hottest spot on the Continent last week had to be the small West German city of Bayreuth, site of the annual Richard Wagner opera festival. Inside a broiling, stifling Festspielhaus, an elegant first-night crowd shed its tuxedo jackets along with its customary solemn decorum as it watched, with growing disappointment, impatience and finally anger, a new production of Wagner's 16-hour, four-evening German myth, Der Ring des Nibelungen, by two British knights, Director Sir Peter Hall and Conductor Sir Georg Solti...
Officials said yesterday that the final version of the rules were adapted after scores of seminars and on-site inspections held since winter...
Executives of Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corp. spent 15 months negotiating with Tennessee state officials over the site for a $660 million assembly plant that produced its first light truck in Smyrna in June. "The Japanese practice of asking the same questions ten to twelve times, of four or five different sources, greatly protracted the talks," recalls Joseph Davis, director of international marketing for Tennessee...
This summer, the project to focusing on Poverty Point, located some 150 miles north of Baton Rouge. La--the site of an advanced ceremonial center which has attracted archeological attention worldwide. The structures there consist of tall sloping mounds and a series of terraces in the shape of a semi-circle. Their purpose remains a mystery. The excavations have so far uncovered an estimated 23 million "baked clay objects," round irregular lumps of pottery which look like man made rocks...