Until the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the foreign policy of Czechoslovakia had followed that of the Soviet Union.

Until 1989, 6, 000 installations existed in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Until the release of official data in 1989, the 1963 edition of the North Korea Central Yearbook was the last official publication to disclose population figures.

Until 1989 water resources were administered regionally or locally.

Until recently, the regions surrounding Bucharest were largely rural, but after 1989, new suburbs started to be built around Bucharest, in the surrounding Ilfov county.

Until 1989, Netherlands Public Broadcasting was the only television network in the Netherlands, with three stations, Nederland 1, Nederland 2 and Nederland 3.

Until 1989 there were six TV channels, all owned by the USSR Gosteleradio.

Until 1989, areas outside of these main cities had access to only a single commercial station, and these rural stations often formed small networks such as Prime Television.

Until 1989 Sremski Karlovci formed one of the urban municipalities of the city of Novi Sad.

Until 1989, Gunderloy collected and, in turn, made available several versions of the Gemstone File.

Until 1989, it included its smaller relative the Ghost Catfish, now known as K. minor.

Until 1989 the official name of the municipality was Tietjerksteradeel (), the Dutch name ; the current official name is West Frisian.

Until the Velvet Revolution ( 1989 ) narcotics were only a minor problem in Czech society.

Until 1989 the paper supported the forerunners of the Labor Party.

Until 1989, Cochran served alongside Democrat John C. Stennis, the longest-serving Senator in Mississippi's history.

Until 1993, all these years use the Pistrucci reverse except for 1986 which used a gold version of the circulating Two Pound coin, and 1989 when a completely new design was used to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first issue of the sovereign coin-the obverse shows the Queen seated on the coronation throne holding the orb and sceptre, with the legend, while the reverse shows a crowned shield within a double rose and the legend.

Until 1989, the award was given by Polish science fiction fan associations, voting as units ; since 1990, all fans present at Polcon can vote.

Until the collapse of the East German regime in 1989, Humboldt University remained under tight ideological control of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands ( Socialist Unity Party of Germany ), or SED, which, by rigorously selecting students according to their conformity to the party line, made sure that no democratic opposition could grow on its university campuses.

* Wait Until Spring, Bandini ( 1989 )

Until 1989, Hass wrote occasionally for low-circulation left-wing magazines, but was not known to the general public.

Until 1989, around 1 / 3 of pupils who took the exam, or 27 % of the age group, were given places in a grammar school.

Until 1989, a cattle farm operated on the island.

Until his departure from Labour in 1989, Anderton had been the most vocal Labour MP in his criticism of his party's new direction.

Until 1989, while Communists held power in the People's Republic of Poland, the Polish – Soviet War was omitted or minimized in Polish and other Soviet bloc countries ' history books, or was presented as a foreign intervention during the Russian Civil War to fit in with Communist ideology.

Until 1831 graves were allowed in the church, and many illustrious Haarlemmers through the centuries are buried there.

Until more substantial evidence about the Crofton graves can be gathered, there is no reason to suggest that the Bedwyn location, for an obscure 7th century battle, is little more than a myth.

Until 1991, the ambassador of the Soviet Union to the Netherlands visited the graves of the Georgians on 4 May every year, and, at least during the latter visits, called the Georgians " Heroes of the Soviet Union ".

Until the creation of Vancouver District five days later, Clatsop County extended north across the Columbia into present-day Washington.

Until 1854, it was one of the five state capitals for Rhode Island.

Until the beginning of the 1960s, tractors had a single register of gears, hence one gear stick, often with three to five forward gears and 1 reverse.

Until he was five, he lived in Colombo, Ceylon, but then travelled with his mother until the age of eight, when he was sent to school at Clifton College, Bristol.

Until fall 1944 overseas units contained five performers or fewer ; The Barretts of Wimpole Street, using local theaters in France and Italy, was the first to use an entire theater company, including scenery.

Until 2009, new episodes aired five nights a week, though currently the Friday episode is now essentially a rebroadcast of a recent episode.

Until 1893, larval eels — transparent, leaflike two-inch ( five cm ) creatures of the open ocean — were considered a separate species, Leptocephalus brevirostris ( from the Greek leptocephalus meaning " thin-or flat-head ").

Until 1854, Bristol was one of the five state capitals of Rhode Island.

Until 1540 the " vill " of Royston was divided between five parishes: Barkway, Reed and Therfield in Hertfordshire and Melbourn and Kneesworth in Cambridgeshire.

Until the mid 1980s, nursery schools only admitted pupils in the final year ( three terms ) leading up to their admission to primary school, but pupils now attend nursery school for four or five terms.

Until the Meiji Restoration of 1868, those five families held those title exclusively with two exceptions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his nephew Toyotomi Hidetsugu.

Until summer 2006, junction numbers started at seven, although only the first five junctions were numbered.

The family of five girls and two boys subsisted on a small piece of land, and Bageshwari also held a low-paying clerical position in a nearby sugar mill. Until the age of 15 he studied at the Gang Baksh Kanodiya High School in Sahpur and then joined junior college at Allahabad, about three hundred kilometers away. He was admitted to the Civil Engineering Department of IIT Kanpur in 1990, graduated in 1994.

Until 2005 the district was administratively subdivided into five districts.

Until the revocation of the ban five days later, the publication itself was a news event in Canada, with Canadian news media struggling to report on the disclosure without putting themselves at risk of legal action.

Until he came of age, five regents were to rule in his place ; but Shogun Ietsuna nevertheless assumed a role as formal head of the bakufu bureaucracy.

Until 1947 the province was bordered by five princely states to the north, the minor states of the Gilgit Agency to the northeast, the province of West Punjab to the east, and the province of Balochistan to the south.

** Until 2006, the portions of Indiana within the Eastern Time Zone observed Eastern Standard Time year-round – except that five counties near Cincinnati and Louisville customarily observed Eastern Daylight Time despite legally being on Eastern Standard Time.

Until March 25, 2008 GMDSS operator and maintainer licenses expired after five years but could be renewed upon payment of a fee.

Until 1991, any number of replays were permitted, with a record of five.

Until Series 5 of ' Da Bungalow ', each week a short five minute feature would be shown of the travels of ' next door's cat ', who would visit the Bungalow to recount the tales of his adventures.

Until the late 1970s, it consisted of the 4th Armoured Brigade and 12th Mechanised Brigade, but from 1976 to 1983 it was reorganised as a small armoured division, incorporating two brigade-sized headquarters, Task Force Charlie ( TFC ) and Task Force Delta ( TFD ), which controlled five tank / mechanised infantry battle groups ( one armoured and two infantry in TF Charlie, and one armoured and one infantry in TF Delta ).

Until 2004, the Royal Scots had been one of five line infantry regiments never to be amalgamated in its entire history, a claim shared by The Green Howards, The 22nd ( Cheshire ) Regiment, The Royal Welch Fusiliers and The King's Own Scottish Borderers.

Until 1993, the NHL's top executive was the league President, and for five months in 1993 the league had a commissioner and a president.