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48 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits Contents includes: Global events: Mugabe wins Zimbabwean elections -- Solidarity is legalized in Poland -- Iran and Iraq go to war -- Reagan is elected US President -- Thi IBM PC is released -- Argentina invades the Faulklands -- Massacres in Lebanon -- The HIV virus is identified -- India's Prime Minister is assassinated -- Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader -- The Live Aid concerts -- Space shuttle Challenger disintegrates -- Accident at Chernobyl -- World stock exchange crash -- Soviet troops leave Afghanistan -- The Louvre 'Pyramid' opens -- Massacre in Tiananmen Square -- The Berlin Wall comes down -- British events: The SAS storm the Iranian embassy -- The coal miners' strike begins -- The Lockerbie disaster Dates of a decade