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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty years ago next March, China and the Soviet Union appeared to be on the brink of war after a series of skirmishes along their border. After nearly two decades of recurring tensions, trade has broken out across that 4,500-mile frontier -- a commercial boom that may be a prelude to a new rapprochement between the two Communist giants. The U.S. is following these developments with considerable interest. Ever since Richard Nixon made his historic opening to China in the wake of the 1969 border fighting, the American "strategic partnership" with China has been rooted largely in a shared...
...company Martin Marietta has designed a solar-powered microchip transmitter that can be glued snugly onto a bee's back, enabling entomologists to follow the swarm's movements and observe the bees' mating and foraging habits. The transmitter emits an infrared signal that can be detected up to a mile away. The company is still testing the tiny bee tracer, which it hopes to sell to the Agriculture Department and other researchers...
...planes and other equipment but to develop new fighting strategies. Over the past three years the Chinese have created what they call "integrated corps," units of soldiers, sailors and marines, to fight potential invaders, and "fist squads," rapid-deployment forces designed to handle skirmishes along China's 4,150-mile border with the Soviet Union...
...runaway train had had an uneventful trip along the 35-mile commuter line from Melun to Paris until the brakes failed just outside the Gare de Lyon, a major commuter hub. Firemen, doctors and paramedics worked for 20 hours to save the injured and retrieve the dead. "I tried to lift someone up by the shoulders," said a young fireman. "His torso came off in my arms." Said Mayor Jacques Chirac after visiting the scene: "It is incomprehensible...
...Vice presidents at Ashland Oil, they had a combined 35 years of experience in the oil business. McKay earned $150,000 a year and lived with his wife and two children in a handsome four-bedroom brick house in Russell, Ky., a quiet neighborhood less than a mile from company headquarters. Williams, who lived nearby, frequently traveled to New York City and Washington as Ashland's executive in charge of corporate lobbying. In 1983, however, the two men felt they had to blow the whistle on their employer: they told federal investigators that Ashland Oil had paid bribes to Middle...