Word: soils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very old house-any architecture major could tell that-for down beneath the basement was a chamber as dark as the grave. This had been a depot on the Underground Railroad, a hiding cellar for northbound slaves. The landholders, generation after generation, had given over their rolling soil and their Quaker time to corn and cows, and for a very long while there it would seem the clock stood still...
...with bromides to the effect that the people of Hong Kong should "put their hearts at ease." But his actions, contrary to his reassurances, have served merely to unsettle those hearts. Last May, after several Chinese officials had publicly declared that China would not station soldiers on Hong Kong soil, Deng suddenly summoned the Hong Kong press. After denouncing the claims of two of his associates as "hogwash," he instructed the astonished journalists, "You go and publish this bit of news. Troops will be stationed in Hong Kong. It is part of Chinese territory. Why shouldn't we station...
...Almighty, Islamic jihad announces that it is responsible for blowing up a car rigged with explosives, which was driven by one of our suicide commandos. The operation proves that we will carry out our previous promise not to allow a single American to remain on Lebanese soil...
...Soviet Union and East Germany, and that is a tug of war that the Soviet Union could not lose." In retrospect, Western observers were surprised that Honecker had held out against Moscow as long as he did. With as many as 380,000 Soviet soldiers stationed on its soil, East Germany has never had much room to maneuver. But then, Honecker has never shown any willingness to challenge the Kremlin openly, either...
...When Honecker traveled to Bucharest last week to attend ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of Rumanian independence, President Nicolae Ceauşescu presented him with the Star of the Socialist Republic of Rumania, first class. Ceauşescu has refused to permit Soviet troops to be stationed on Rumanian soil and has opted out of Warsaw Pact plans to counter the new NATO weapons by installing Soviet missiles in Eastern Europe. The Rumanian leader told the Brazilian daily Jornal do Brasil last week that his country "is determined not to accept any kind of nuclear weapons on its territory...