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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Overseas, the reaction was no less emphatic. At least four West European governments summoned Soviet diplomats and delivered sternly worded protests about the shooting down of Flight 007. Italy's huge Communist Party fired off a demand to Moscow for an explanation of "this crime"; Japan's Communist...
The Cuban people are now beginning to awaken to the situation. Thousands of workers have begun to organize an independent trade union. Recently, five trade unionists were sentenced to death and saved only through the mobilization of world opinion. Tens of workers have been sent to prison, and eleven farmers...
At first, traders hardly noticed the intervention. Foreign-exchange markets swap tens of billions of dollars' worth of currency daily, and the U.S. actions had little impact. "The markets were not impressed," said one European banking official. To get their attention, Washington had to announce formally that it was...
Dr.T. (for Thomas) Berry Brazelton, 65, says he is no scientist, which shows a becoming modesty, but he would have a hard time denying that he is the nation's pre-eminent baby doctor. A whole generation of pediatricians has studied and worked with him at Harvard Medical School...
How are they managing it? Consider their approach to what is only a small side issue, the traditional Olympic torch relay. Deluged with tens of thousands of requests to carry the torch, L.A.O.O.C. President Peter Ueberroth concluded that the flame could generate some national spirit and some local dollars for...