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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Syrian Army entered Lebanon to stop (as they put it) the war. But they quickly took the side of the Palestinians and started to shell the civilian Christian areas, day after day killing thousands of innocent people. Their aim was to break to the Christian resistance, which is the only obstacle to the annexation, by Syria, of a great part of Lebanon. This non-stop shelling continued from 1976 until the Israeli invasion in 1982 (the goal of which was to stop the PLO terrorism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lebanon: A Native's Perspective | 8/16/1983 | See Source »

...cooled by the same winter and summer." It follows, does it not, that we must all want the same things? According to Harvard Cardiologist Bernard Lown, president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, that's not just Shakespeare, it's a scientific fact: "Our aim is to promote the simple medical insight," he writes, "that Russian and American hearts are indistinguishable, that both ache for peace and survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Deep Down, We're All Alike, Right? Wrong | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

Carrol, cutting earlier court cases, said that municipal bodies have the power on keep initiatives off the ballot if they consider the aim illegal of unconstitutional as many have said of the current initiative...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Nuke Free Cambridge Drive Wins One, But Still Uncertain | 8/12/1983 | See Source »

...observes concede that the new technology is prone to incorrect use, the main problem the Harvard guidelines aim at. Louis J. DiBerardinas, the University's chief industrial hygienist said yesterday that several offices have installed the terminals without concern for glare or the individual user's size Such factors can lead to vision impairment or back pains...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Two Workplace Problems Get University Attention | 8/2/1983 | See Source »

...there are, say, ten great fashion designers in the world right now, then at least three of them are Japanese. These are not international celebrity couturiers, doing cunning variations on conventional forms. These are revolutionaries, insurgents whose aim is to modify, sometimes even change, the shape and form of clothing itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Into the Soul of Fabric | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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