Word: head
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday, in the kind of head-spinning turn of events that is now the norm in the Soviet bloc, East Germany's Egon Krenz resigned as Communist Party leader -- while retaining his post as leader of the state -- and his entire Politburo and Central Committee stepped down as well. Asked about German unification at Sunday's press conference, Gorbachev said some questions must be left for "history" to decide and cautioned against doing "anything to accelerate these changes artificially." That call for prudence seemed ironic coming from the statesman who had done more than any other in this half...
...possibly the world's most wanted man, accused of killing or wounding nearly 1,000 people, most of them innocent people, in attacks around the world over the past 15 years. But last week there were reports that this ferocious dealer of death and destruction, Abu Nidal, 52, head of the Libyan-based Fatah Revolutionary Council, is ill and possibly dying in a hospital in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, his illness variously reported to be cancer and heart disease. Declared a Cairo-based official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, from which the terrorist leader broke away...
...President Bush sent me a very significant and friendly letter in connection with both my election as head of state and the removal of travel restrictions. I consider this a signal for closer relations with the U.S. There are some issues that still need to be clarified...
Wattleton, the only child of a woman who was a Fundamentalist minister in St. Louis, was appointed head of Planned Parenthood eleven years ago, at age 34. She was a plucky choice for an institution traditionally headed by button- down white men, an organization that had become as all-American as the Girl Scouts and debutante parties. Within her first three years, Wattleton, a former nurse and midwife whose primary bureaucratic experience had been running the Dayton affiliate, shifted the organization's structure to a crisply corporate one, reshuffling more than half of the national office's employees...
...Subcommittee (she tangled with Representative Christopher Smith of New Jersey, a zealous pro-life advocate), planned pro-choice strategy with Representatives Don Edwards of Florida and Pat Schroeder of Colorado (she urged them to introduce a federal pro-choice statute), had a get-acquainted session with Democratic National Committee head Ronald Brown (she told him that Webster backlash will help the Democrats) and then capped off the day by conferring with Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon (she pressed him about a pro-choice constitutional amendment, a dream of hers that other pro- choice groups privately consider a waste...