Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weeks of demonstrations for reform have accompanied the flight to the West of tens of thousands of East Germans. The largest protests in the nation's 40-year history have taken place in Leipzig, another one last week involving 300,000 people.
The issue was produced by picture researcher Robert Stevens, designer Christine Castigliano, senior editor George Russell, associate editor Richard Lacayo, reporter-researchers Sidney Urquhart and Daniel Levy and assistants Denise Mei and Alex Sutton, under the direction of special-projects editor Donald Morrison. They sifted through tens of thousands of...
The way Americans respond to disasters and potential disasters is a subject worth dwelling upon. The permanent damage of the stock market's bounciness seems negligible at this point. And while dozens of people were killed in the San Francisco earthquake, and tens of thousands were left homeless, hundreds of...
The Politburo's tentative first step toward a softening of its policies was already more than many had anticipated. Just two days earlier, President Erich Honecker, 77, had all but threatened a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown to halt the demonstrations that were spreading like a virus from city to city...
If gold mining in Nevada were confined to the Carlin Trend, environmentalists like Glenn Miller, a biochemist at the University of Nevada- Reno, would not be so concerned. But Carlin is not the only area in Nevada where mining companies are digging up the land. Hundreds of geologists continue to...