Word: states
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even in the unpredictable Soviet Union, television viewers must be astonished by a new program on one of the two state-run channels. Last week, in a Sunday time slot following the evening news, Metropolitan Pitirim, head of the publishing department of the Russian Orthodox Church, appeared on the screen garbed in clerical robes and holding prayer beads. For ten minutes, Pitirim spoke soothingly about the need to set aside daily troubles in order to help others and contemplate the meaning of life. The priest also worked in discreet mentions of Jesus Christ and the Bible...
...leaders without restricting their activities, and by allowing their celebrations to take place unhindered, the government seemed to grant the group a sort of provisional legal status. The leaders will appear at an A.N.C. rally in Soweto this Sunday, the first such assembly to be permitted in 30 years. State President F.W. de Klerk was beginning to make good on the promise he made at his inauguration last month to ease tensions and move the country into a new era of negotiations. His action signaled his potential willingness to go even further -- to free Nelson Mandela, the symbolic leader...
...core, the A.N.C. position is equally nonnegotiable, calling for a swift transfer of state power from whites to blacks. The exiled organization stands unwaveringly for one-person, one-vote majority rule in a unitary state. Such an arrangement is "unfair" and unacceptable, says De Klerk. "Afrikaners won't agree to that until they are militarily defeated," says a senior diplomat in Pretoria, "and the balance of power in the country right now does not favor revolution...
...enormous energy and resources that Californians have invested in getting ready for the Big One were amply rewarded last week. Since 1971, construction codes have been tightened, buildings have been reinforced, emergency backup water supplies and communications systems have been secured. In communities throughout the state, fire and police departments regularly practice earthquake evacuation and rescue responses, and neighborhood groups have organized self-help efforts...
...state and local officials were collecting congratulations on their efforts last week, troubling questions were being raised about two catastrophes: the collapse of a stretch of Interstate 880 in Oakland and the fall of a 50-ft. span on the Bay Bridge, which connects Oakland and San Francisco. In concentrating on the destructive potential of buildings, had government disaster planners overlooked the fragile condition of heavily traveled highways and bridges...