Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deadwood, S. Dak. But in the 1960s the tiny town (pop. 1,900) nestled in the Black Hills outlawed gambling. And when the town's four brothels were shut down as public nuisances by a posse of federal, state and local law-enforcement personnel in 1980, Deadwood's tourist trade began to fade. "When we had open gambling here, when we had the cathouses, we had hunters by the droves," says Ted Williams, a downtown businessman. "Most of them forgot their guns at home...
...Warsaw the Communist government and Solidarity signed sweeping agreements to legalize the long-banned independent trade union and to allow Poland's first partly democratic elections since 1948. In Phnom Penh, Soviet client Viet Nam announced that it would end its occupation and withdraw all its troops, estimated at some 60,000, from Kampuchea by the end of September. That opened the door to a broad rapprochement between the U.S.S.R. and China, which had bitterly resisted the Vietnamese encroachment. Beijing made the Vietnamese pullout one of three conditions for making up with Moscow (the others: an end to the Soviet...
...known as the godfather and czar of Mexico's drug trade because he reputedly pioneered an alliance with Colombian druglords of the notorious Medellin cartel to move cocaine through Mexico...
Boggs, who has been the subject of trade rumors, was given an ovation by Red Sox fans before and during the game...
...Gaping cracks have opened in the wall of social "order" that once comforted the Russian psyche and justified Soviet ideology. Organized crime is so active that Mafia has become commonplace in Russian patois. The homeless are more obvious too, including provincials who have traveled to Moscow to buy or trade for food and must spend the night huddled in drafty railway stations. Elsewhere, gaudy hookers and teenage toughs prowl pedestrian tunnels, and beggars -- old women, mostly -- hold out quavering hands for kopecks. Black marketeers hustle even in Red Square, and on a green fence near city hall someone has neatly...