Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting at the Pentagon last December that Crowe figured a longer visit would improve relations. Military brass insist that the Soviet marshal will not get a peek at any vital secrets during his trip, but he will get to glimpse such vital institutions as a rodeo and a western-style barbecue when his tour reaches Crowe's home state of Oklahoma...
...January more than 4,500 Rumanians have received permission to settle in Hungary, and officials predict that the number will swell to at least 12,000 by year's end. Virtually all the newcomers belong to the large ethnic Hungarian minority (more than 1.7 million) that lives in the western Rumanian region of Transylvania. The immigrants complain that ethnic Hungarians are the victims of official discrimination. Hungarian authorities agree: in April, Budapest protested a new Rumanian program to uproot hundreds of ethnic Hungarian villagers in Transylvania as a deliberate policy of "weakening the identity of national minorities...
...work on white paper to take home and hang in their rooms. In the best competitive spirit, shouts of "Look at mine! Look at mine!" brought high praise from parents. Exhausted with outdoor activities, they gathered in an auditorium to watch a skit titled Billy the Squid: a Calamari Western, produced by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Eager volunteers wearing minimal white cotton tentacle costumes were cast as a school of squid. The school's role was to appear to be a large underwater mass and thus discourage the bad-guy shark. This is apparently one of the squid's classic...
...wasteful effect of these subsidies is not widely understood. Many outsiders, as well as most locals surveyed by the Western Governors' Association, falsely believe the region would have sufficient water if only profligate cities like Newport Beach, Calif., and Scottsdale, Ariz., made do with fewer swimming pools and car washes. Rather than match supply to demand by steeply raising water rates, most political leaders merely exhort residents to take shorter showers and flush toilets less often. Los Angeles will soon spend $600,000 broadcasting such bromides...
WORLD: Moscow gets set for a Western- style political convention...