Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ceremonies, conducted in a second-class hotel in the Beirut suburb of Khalde and three hours later in a community cultural center in the Israeli border town of Qiryat Shemona, were aptly symbolic. In the Khalde ceremony, Lebanese Negotiator Antoine Fattal held his chin in knit fingers, and his eyes were downcast. He applauded politely but without enthusiasm when his Israeli counterpart, David Kimche, made a brief speech praising the agreement that was about to be signed. Lebanese President Amin Gemayel summed up his countrymen's attitude when he later declared, "Lebanon is not holding celebrations today. Lebanon...
DIED. Muddy Waters, 68, the Grammy award-winning blues singer and guitarist whose vibrant Delta sound influenced a generation of rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, who took their name from one of his songs; of cardiac arrest; in the Chicago suburb of Westmont. Born McKinley Morganfield, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, Waters had a guttural baritone that soared in songs such as Hoochie Coochie Man and Got My Mojo Working...
...telephone service everywhere. The city, sitting more than 5 ft. below sea level in some areas, is ordinarily kept dry by its extensive drainage pumping system, but this time the pumps were unable to keep pace. Stranded residents switched to boats and canoes. For Rose Hushfield in the suburb of Arabi, it was the third time in five years that her house had been flooded. "You get to where there are no more tears...
...treated with the same respect as the intelligent one, the misinformed may talk as long as the informed." History is not the MacNeil-Lehrer Report either. Should one grit one's teeth and recite the First Amendment when, say, American Nazis decide to march in a Chicago suburb (Skokie) inhabited by many Jews who survived the Holocaust? Suppose that a man (William Shockley) wishes to tour American lecture halls suggesting that blacks are inherently inferior to whites...
...first victims in a government reshuffle. Seven more faced embarrassing runoffs (held whenever the first round produces no clear-cut winner). Among them: Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who has ruled Marseille as a personal fiefdom for 30 years; Finance Minister Jacques Delors, who was running in the Paris suburb of Clichy, a safe Socialist seat for 50 years; and Premier Mauroy, who has controlled the northern industrial city of Lille since 1973. In Paris the Chirac steamroller overpowered both Culture Minister Jack Lang and Socialist Leader Lionel Jospin...