Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggled to explain how the U.S.S. Vincennes had mistakenly shot down Iran Air Flight 655 with 290 civilians aboard, the mullahs who run Iran sought to make the most of their morbid propaganda windfall. Public memorial services took place in at least four cities. At Bandar Abbas, the coastal town from which the doomed jet took off, reporters were given a look at some of the bloated and mutilated bodies of the victims, about 170 of whom had been dragged from the Persian Gulf by week...
...plenty of reminders of potential trouble. Green military staff cars dart about the streets, their horns blowing at pedestrians and the occasional horse-drawn cart to make room for P.L.A. officers on their way to the regimental headquarters of the specially trained border troops garrisoned on the outskirts of town. On a nearby hilltop are a high-frequency radio tower for combat communications and an early-warning radar that would help alert the MiGs in Mudanjiang to scramble in the event of a Soviet attack...
...benefits our people, who welcome a market for their goods and need the things we get from the Russians in return." Suifenhe is building a five-story international trade center in its main square to accommodate an expected increase in the barter transactions. With an eye to export, the town brewery puts Russian- language labels on its Seagull crab-apple juice and Polar Bear beer...
...word. Day after sweltering day in an early summer heat wave, nearly 5,000 delegates met in the Kremlin's vast Palace of Congresses to debate their country's political future, and specifically the fate of Gorbachev's three-year-old program of perestroika (restructuring). A combination political convention, town meeting, classroom lecture and gripe session, the gathering turned into an astonishing exercise in Gorbachev's second-favorite buzz word, glasnost (openness). More than 70 delegates spoke their minds by week's end, and many others wanted to do so. But Gorbachev finally cut short discussion to hold a series...
Gorbachev dominates an extraordinary Communist Party gabfest, part town meeting and part gripe session. Delegates endorse the Soviet leader' s plan for a presidential system that could relax the Communist Party' s grip...