Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wellesley police are seeking vandals who spray-painted racist and anti-Semitic messages on buildings, streets and cars throughout this Boston suburb before dawn Sunday morning...
...televised speech from his hillside bunker in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanese Christian leader General Michel Aoun described last Saturday as nothing less than "the beginning of the chance to achieve peace." He then proclaimed acceptance by his forces of a seven-point peace plan advanced two weeks ago by the Arab League. The plan has been endorsed by Syria, which has more than 30,000 troops in the strife-torn country, and its Lebanese allies. It marks the first time since the two sides began waging open warfare six months ago, at a cost of more than 800 lives...
...growing hunger for self-rule in the republics without aggrieving the large numbers of local Russians? In Estonia, where Russians and other minorities comprise 40% of the 1.7 million population, the Russians complain that personal snubs abound. Alexander Yashugin, a decorated World War II veteran who lives in a suburb of Tallinn, said an Estonian shopkeeper refused to let him register to buy a TV set, and would not even put him on a waiting list. "On the front, they didn't discriminate between Balt and Russian," he said...
...Hitler ordered the start of an all-out drive on Moscow, which the Wehrmacht now surrounded on three sides, only 20 to 30 miles outside the city. One infantry unit got as far as the suburb of Khimki, from which the Germans could actually see the towers of the Kremlin, but that was as far as they could go before Soviet tanks drove them out again. And all along the front, the Soviet defenders held fast. Then, on Dec. 6, the Soviets somehow produced 100 new divisions and launched a counteroffensive that sent the Germans reeling back 50 miles...
...extreme policy: rounding up and killing every Jew in all of German-occupied Europe. Himmler's special commandos had shot tens of thousands of Jews in Poland, but the Nazis sought more efficient methods. Himmler's deputy, Reinhard Heydrich, summoned representatives of all major government departments to the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to inform them of what he called "the final solution." This required the creation of six giant extermination camps in Poland: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Maidanek, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor. The Wannsee conference was called for Dec. 9 but had to be put off for six weeks because of the extraordinary...