Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November. But on April 13 the State Council rescinded the scheduled reform. The decision was understandable. Rather than work in state-run enterprises, which need talented help desperately, most college graduates would opt for private-sector jobs that offer more money, greater opportunities for advancement and the chance to travel abroad. But the government's about-face last April, combined with the death two days later of Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded Communist Party Chairman ousted in early 1987, contributed to the student demonstrations that culminated in the Tiananmen massacre on June...
However some Harvard students have made other travel arrangements to Washington...
Last week, the Crimson credited fullback Claudine Moreno with right wing Kari Morioka's goal Actually, Moreno did not travel to Columbia for that game. So in yesterday's paper, The Crimson misidentified a picture of Kristy Gaschler as, you guessed it, Moreno. Moreno was ill and did not dress for Sunday's game either. We blew it. We're sorry...
...blamed Bonn. As for Hungary, the Soviets displayed cautious sympathy. In an interview with the BBC, Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said that Hungary was "in a Catch-22 situation. On the one hand, it had an agreement with the ((German Democratic Republic)) not to allow G.D.R. citizens to travel to a third country. On the other hand, it had all these people there. It was a very difficult, very unusual situation...
...East Germany enjoys the best living standard of any East European country. Most of the refugees, however, define a better life in terms that cannot be measured in deutsche marks. Of those polled, almost three-quarters said they were driven by the lack of freedom of expression and travel. Almost as many said they wanted more personal responsibility for their own destiny. As Heide Zitzmann, 37, a schoolteacher, summed it up, "I felt buried alive...