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Dates: during 1980-1989
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His economic reforms will not work unless they are radically expanded. As Andrei Sakharov put it, "In the absence of radical reforms in the Soviet system, credits and technological aid will only prop up an ailing system and delay the advent of democracy."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Should the U.S. Help Gorbachev? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

One late afternoon eight years ago, Griffiths Mxenge, a well-known black lawyer and antiapartheid campaigner in the city of Durban, was driving home when he stopped to help four men whose pickup truck had apparently broken down. According to an affidavit given to the police, the men abducted Mxenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Probing the Hit Squads | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Since 1977 nearly 50 government opponents have been murdered under murky circumstances, the victims of apparent assassinations. Few of their killers have been identified, let alone apprehended by the authorities. Last week long-standing suspicions that police hit squads were behind at least some of the murders were bolstered by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Probing the Hit Squads | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

La Barbera's dilemma is increasingly common among American women. Until recently, owning a fur coat, usually a mink, was an unquestioned emblem of luxury and social status. But lately a growing cadre of animal-rights activists has been aggressively denouncing such garments as "sadist symbols" that, they say, require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Furor over Wearing Furs | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Animal-rights groups have steadily gathered force. Last month Trans-Species Unlimited, an animal activist organization, staged its fourth annual Fur-Free Friday in 90 cities across the nation. In New York City some 3,000 protesters, led by perennial TV game-show host Bob Barker, marched down Fifth Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Furor over Wearing Furs | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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