Word: tensing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost every Democratic leader is sweating out the campaign, and a few may go down to defeat, including House Democratic Whip John Brademas of Indiana. His opponent, Republican Businessman John Hiler, is working the factory gates for the blue-collar vote in a district that includes Elkhart County, where unemployment...
FLORIDA. The presidential race is influenced by local issues in every state, but perhaps the most inflammatory can be found in Florida. The influx of tens of thousands of Cubans and Haitians has put a staggering burden on state resources and sent state resources and sent the crime rate skyrocketing...
For the most part, however, the country rejoiced in the sudden easing of tension. The banks were open again. Tens of thousands of workers were ordered to end a nationwide wave of strikes and go back to their jobs. The new government sugared the pill by announcing a 70% wage...
"Vota si!" The exhortation seemed to come from every billboard, radio and TV set in the country, and despite a muted chorus of dissent, the issue was never really in doubt. Last week, in a national plebiscite held seven years to the day after the violent overthrow of their last...
Italy's neo-Fascists had once again drawn blood-however mistakenly-a month to the day after a terrorist bomb detonated in the Bologna train station and took 84 lives. Indeed, on the morning of Di Leo's death, tens of thousands of demonstrators had gathered outside the...