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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predicts, are bound to win--and "the more military the victory, the more hostile the regime" that will rise, particularly if the victory were against American troops. As a member of the Frente Democratico Revolucionaro (FDR). Silva has a stake in the success of the FMLN, the military arm of the revolution, but he fears success at the cost of what the Vietnamese went through...

Author: By Michael Hasselmo, | Title: Fighting for a Cure | 3/19/1983 | See Source »

Cleary's turn to add to the collection finally came Saturday night when he and Captain Greg Olson jogged up arm in arm and were presented the shiny silver first place trophy...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: No Longer Runner-Up | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Does this concern for purity cost too much in lost prosecutions? The statistics do not provide a clear-cut answer. According to a 1979 report by the General Accounting Office, Congress's investigatory arm, one in every 250 federal criminal cases is not prosecuted because of the exclusionary rule. A recent study in California, however, found that nearly one in 20 felony cases was not brought because of the rule. The only fact that the figures do clearly demonstrate is that the vast majority of search-and-seizure problems involve drug cases. The impact on cases of violent crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: When the Police Blunder a Little | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...charts are based on data from 4.2 million people who were tracked by 25 insurance companies for more than two decades. Statisticians correlated weight to longevity, taking into account body frame size. (This is determined by bending an arm at a right angle and measuring the distance between the two bones protruding on either side of the elbow; a 5-ft. 10-in. man with a 2¾-to 3-in. span is considered to have a medium frame.) The results of the study, says Dr. Paul Entmacher, chief medical director for the company, show "weights at which people live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pass the Eclairs, Please | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...Manhattan punk milieu in the tradition of such '60s films as Shadows and The Connection. Its 19-year-old heroine, Wren (Susan Berman), has seen it all, done most of it, learned nothing. Outfitted in punk khaki - checker-rimmed dark glasses, red sneakers, ornamental bruise on her arm - Wren crashes the Peppermint Lounge and puts the make on new wave musicians, who pay about as much attention to her as they would to the framed landscape on a motel-room wall. This Piaf-size waif has big, gaudy dreams; what she gives and gets is 24-hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Be Young, Gifted and Broke | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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