Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emanate from Washington, Tehran and elsewhere, the debilitating and indecisive six-year-old war between Iran and Iraq dragged on. Twice last week Iraqi warplanes struck deep into Iran, hitting first a petrochemical complex at the port of Bandar Khomeini and then an oil refinery and a power station in Isfahan. In response, Tehran Radio announced that Iranian artillery units would retaliate by shelling targets in southern Iraq. The station warned Iraqi civilians to evacuate Basra, Iraq's second largest city, as well as Umm Qasr, at the head of the Persian Gulf, and Khanaqin, a town northeast of Baghdad...
Molotov's name was actually a pseudonym derived from the Russian word molot (hammer). He was born on March 9, 1890, into the Scriabin family, shopkeepers in the provincial town of Kukarka, northeast of Moscow (in what is now the Kirov region), a way station on the long road to Siberia. Young Scriabin chose the nom de guerre Molotov when he entered the revolutionary underground. While still a student in a czarist secondary school, he joined in the abortive 1905 revolution. Molotov helped start up the Communist Party newspaper Pravda and was an organizer of the Bolshevik Revolution...
...confused with the Supreme Court, these shows do deal with topical legal issues. The litigants on Superior Court have included a couple seeking a refund of their deposit on a new home after discovering that the previous owner had died of AIDS, a bank teller suing a TV station for libel after it falsely reported that he was a robbery suspect, and a retarded woman's mother petitioning the court to have her daughter sterilized. Among The Judge's tough assignments: a teenage brother and sister accused by their younger sister of committing incest...
...quality of life for the raisin-growing Kensington family has been drying up for years. The family patriarch was crushed to death 20 years ago in a dehydrator accident. Now his widow Charlotte (Carol Burnett) spends her time sipping Bloody Marys and being chauffeured around in a Chevrolet station wagon while the Rolls is being repaired...
...Soviet claim that Americans are somehow spreading the aids virus got a boost last week when the Philippine government asked the U.S. to station only "AIDS-free" personnel at American military bases there. Reason: some 20 bar girls have been infected by the AIDS virus, presumably after sexual contact with U.S. servicemen. TASS quickly -- and gleefully -- reported the item...