Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SALE: 6,000-acre spread in the rolling hills north of Dallas. Includes two country clubs, a lake and beach, several small parks. Semioccupied. All this for less than $100 million...
...week, life was decidedly less than peaceful in the monarch's desert realm. The trouble started in the southern town of Ma'an when thousands of demonstrators attacked government office buildings and burned banks to protest increases in the price of food, gasoline and other goods. The riots quickly spread to other southern towns and then to the northern city of Salt. Hussein's brother Crown Prince Hassan, whose car was pelted with stones when he visited Ma'an, blamed Islamic fundamentalists for exploiting the unrest. At least eight people had been killed, apparently all of them civilians...
That touched off one of the bloodiest incidents since Palestinians began their intifadeh in December 1987. Villagers said their tempers had flared earlier in the week when Jewish settlers uprooted trees in the area and Israeli soldiers patrolling the rural village shouted obscenities at local women. When word spread of Abu Gayadeh's killing, the enraged villagers poured out of their houses and attacked the policemen. "As we say in Arabic, patience has limits," said Ahmed, 45, a farmer who would give only his first name. "They pushed us to attack them...
...latest troubles began last month, when a minority group known as the Abkhazians, who live in an autonomous enclave in the western part of Georgia, demanded full independence. Georgians, who account for 48% of the population in Abkhazia where Abkhazians are a mere 17%, staged counterprotests, which quickly spread to Tbilisi and mushroomed into calls for more autonomy from Moscow and even secession. As funeral processions snaked through Tbilisi's streets last week, Gorbachev said he was "deeply grieved" by the tragedy but warned that "we will not allow a blow to be dealt to the brotherhood of the U.S.S.R...
...Ueberroth's deal, his special conditions were met when the airline's pilots, machinists and flight attendants agreed to take $1.1 billion in wage and benefits cuts, spread over five years, in exchange for a 30% ownership stake in the new company. But the unions had a condition too. They demanded that Texas Air chief Frank Lorenzo step aside immediately so that a court- appointed trustee could supervise the reorganization process. Frank Carlucci, the former Secretary of Defense, had flown to New York City expecting to be appointed to the post...