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...orchestra, which is also relying on funds from corporate sponsors, is planning a three-week tour spanning Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Denmark and Poland, according to Richard J. Jim '93, the orchestra's tour director...
...northern city of Bremen, a hostel for foreigners was firebombed. Shelters were also torched in Karlsruhe in the southwest and in Dusseldorf in the northwest, where two Lebanese children were severely burned. Altogether there were at least 16 attacks on foreigners within a 24-hour span, rounding off a three-week reign of terror...
...Gulf War stood at a cross-roads between a U.S. demand for an immediate, unconditional Iraqi pull-out within eight days, and a Soviet-Iraqi proposal for a three-week pullout, a plan that might relieve Iraq of responsibility for war reparations...
...defense under Habre, Deby helped mastermind a series of lightning attacks that drove Gaddafi out of northern Chad in 1983 and again in 1987. But after Habre accused him of plotting a coup last year, Deby fled to the Sudan, where he began recruiting his army. A final three-week assault launched last month quickly overwhelmed forces loyal to Habre, who fled across the Chari River into Cameroon...
Before dismissing the 101st Congress as entirely useless, voters might consider some of its more notable achievements. During their three-week wrangle over the federal budget, the lawmakers exposed a decade's worth of economic gospel as falsehoods while inventing a new set of myths to replace them. They transformed the budget-making process, usually about as gripping as watching weeds grow, into a demolition derby. They invited the middle class to divorce its interests from those of the rich and its sympathies from those of the poor. And they reinforced the suspicion that in a crisis, the first instinct...