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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief targets of the crackdown were the students and monks who have formed the backbone of the protests against military rule for the past several weeks. The army methodically sought out students whose names were on its lists. In the Rangoon suburb of North Okkalapa, soldiers went to the home of two students, made them come out and turn their backs, then shot them on the spot. Presumably similar atrocities took place elsewhere. At least 107 student leaders sought temporary asylum in southern Thailand. Others went underground and hinted at a more violent form of opposition. Said Min Ko Naing...
...sunrise every morning in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, the Shanker family gets ready for work. Steven Shanker, 37, and his wife Avima, 35, wake their two sons, Elan, 5, and Dannel, 2, for a hurried breakfast of cereal and orange juice. After the meal Avima heads off by 7:30 to her job as an engineer at Librascope, a computer firm. Then, as other pinstriped parents up and down the San Fernando Valley march out to their cars with groggy children in tow, Steven, a vice president at Union Bank in nearby Monterey Park, drives the boys...
Amjad Farooq Alvi, 26, and Basit Farooq Alvi, 19, a pair of self-taught computer experts, are brothers who were raised in a middle-class suburb of Lahore. Amjad is the proprietor of the Brain computer shop. By all accounts he is the stronger programmer. After graduating from Punjab University with a degree in physics, he began devouring electronics texts and teaching himself the rudiments of computer repair and programming. For several years, he earned a living by fixing personal computers. By 1985 he had switched to programming, producing customized software that was, to his dismay, copied and used without...
...same time, the movement of women into the work force has produced a second commuter in most households. A suburban, two-income family typically owns two cars for the parents and often a third car for teenagers to take to school or the mall. In the affluent Washington suburb of Fairfax County, Va., the number of autos has increased almost 84% since 1975, nearly three times as fast as the population growth...
...news infused local residents with Texas-size optimism. "It would bring extra money to the community budget," said the suburb's Communist deputy mayor, Gilbert Ridouh. To Odile Deana, a jewelry-store sales clerk, the strike promised "work, a lot of people visiting the drilling sites and more business for us." Elf-Aquitaine cautioned that more tests are needed to determine the well's potential profitability...