Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forget about the other sports events around town this fall...
...stalks the dreams of his posse's teenage children. A vision of loathsomeness with his moldy black felt hat, scalded face, red-and-green-striped sweater and right-hand glove with steel "finger-knives," he lures each sleeping adolescent to a convenient boiler room (every building in town has one) or into their grungiest fears. And if they don't wake up in time, he executes them. Kind of harrowing, the number of Elm Street kids who die in their sleep. As one boy says, "It's not exactly a safe place to be a teenager...
Meantime, government riot police stood ready to open a mine in the Silesian town of Jastrzebie in order to permit safety crews to combat an underground fire and relieve accumulations of methane gas. After vowing to keep the troops from entering, several hundred militant strikers backed down...
...serve two months of active duty a year for twelve years. Recently, political resistance to serving the state has become a public issue, especially among English speakers and university students, who are automatically deferred as long as they remain in school. A year ago, 23 new draftees in Cape Town announced to the press that they had refused to serve in the military. One of them, Dr. Ivan Toms, has since been tried and sentenced to 21 months in prison...
...University of Cape Town the next day, six young men announced they would refuse to serve in the military. An army of 1,500 fellow students showed their support by marching across the campus carrying placards and shouting slogans...