Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BERLIN--A half-million East Germans thronged the streets of Leipzig in a hard, cold rain last night to demand free elections and unlimited freedom to travel abroad...
Those who have stayed behind have demanded that the East German government make democratic reforms and allow freer travel. As many as one million people demonstrated on Saturday in East Berlin urging reform...
Slash TV? Not quite. But horror, fantasy and science fiction have invaded the medium with a vengeance. The NBC series Quantum Leap involves time travel, and Fox's new Alien Nation postulates a Los Angeles of the future, where people from another planet are trying to integrate into American society. Cable is going for classy shocks in such series as Shelley Duvall's Nightmare Classics on Showtime and HBO's Tales from the Crypt, adapted from the old E.C. horror comics and directed by such notables as Walter Hill (48 HRS.) and Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future...
...domestic morass. If so, he may be disappointed. The key ingredients for change in the Communist world are already well identified, the recipe lifted from a Western cookbook for democracy. Separate Party from State. Add opposition parties and free elections to State. Briskly mix in press, speech and travel freedoms. Top with rights to assemble, strike and form labor unions. Bake in oven turned to Free Enterprise setting. Then hope that the inevitable spillover of chaos -- including the inevitable hard economic times -- doesn't cause the Democracy Souffle to fall...
...works because electronic signals bounce off objects, just as a voice is reflected by walls or buildings. Radar transmits radio waves and "listens" for an echo. The direction of the echo and the elapsed time from transmission determine an object's location. Unlike relatively slow sound waves, radio signals travel at the speed of light and can circle the globe 7 1/2 times a second. Therefore, radar can almost instantly spot targets at great distances. Because it can see through clouds and at night, radar is superior to all other sensors, including optical, infrared, acoustic and magnetic...