Word: markings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tribal territory on the southeast coast of South Africa, women in bright bandannas and beads danced and sang the words Enkululele kweni (Go forward to independence). Since many of the voters could neither read nor write, election officials, under the close scrutiny of local police, showed them how to mark their ballots. The outcome was never really in doubt: by a lopsided vote of 295,891 in favor and only 1,642 against, the tribesmen chose to break away from South Africa and establish their own Republic of Ciskei...
...political demise would mark an unusually rapid rise and fall for such a top-level Chinese leader...
...tune was spent arguing about a war between the two most powerful military members a resounding show of unity." For more than two years, Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani has been trying to restore a unified price for OPEC crude. But the spread between the Saudi bench-mark or "marker" price and the cartel's ceiling price after the Bali meeting has grown to $9, thus allowing individual members considerable room to set their own oil prices free of the cartel...
...that became a hit movie, greedy physicians have a nifty racket going: in order to acquire valuable organs for transplant surgery, they slip patients into unconsciousness, then declare them irreversibly braindamaged. If a recent television program in Britain were to be believed, Coma is not so far off the mark. The show, part of the BBC'S Panorama program, asked the question Transplants: Are the Donors Really Dead? The shocking answer: maybe...
...sentences for two former top agents convicted on Nov. 6 for their roles in approving illegal break-ins during the Nixon Administration in the early 1970s. Found by a jury to have conspired to violate citizens' Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, W. Mark Felt, 67, who had been the FBI's deputy director, and Edward S. Miller, 52, once its chief of domestic intelligence, could have been given ten years and $10,000 fines. But Bryant chose not to jail them. Instead he fined Felt $5,000 and Miller...