Word: southern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Turek, a Lutheran pastor in the southern industrial city of 650,000, said by telephone about 500,000 people marched. A rally Saturday in East Berlin, where the crowd was estimated at one million, was the largest protest in the communist nation's 40-year history...
...Several Southern towns have implemented formsof at-large voting systems, still says, givingBlacks a long missing voice in municipalgovernment. A full-fledged PR system, he says,would make the situation even better...
...only certainty in the rest of the division can be found in southern Florida, where Rony Seikaly and Glen Rice will hold down the fort of the beseiged Miami Heat. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want my fort depending on the likes of Seikaly and Rice, who will learn lessons-a-plenty this year in the NBA, sitting in the Atlantic Division basement...
...Angeles has not suffered a massive tremor in this century and has a much larger population, a major quake could result in far greater devastation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates that an 8.3 magnitude temblor (16 times as powerful as the one that hit San Francisco) on the southern San Andreas fault near Los Angeles could cause $17 billion in property damage and between 3,000 and 14,000 deaths...
Galvanized by the fear that they may be next, Southern Californians are urgently reassessing their plans for coping with the Big One. "What was foremost in many people's minds," says filmmaker Gina Blumenfeld, "was the fact that the San Francisco quake could have just as easily happened here." Residents stocked their homes with bottled water, canned food, batteries and first-aid supplies, snapped up wrenches to turn off the gas and prepacked earthquake kits that sell for $30 to $210. Some of the preparations had an only-in-Hollywood quality. One woman whose emergency gear includes a butane curling...