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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After extensive ballistics tests, Martella concluded that three shots had been fired at the Pope and that only the first two came from Agca's Browning pistol. The third bullet, which hit the Pope's left hand and right arm, was fired by Celik, according to the judge. That slug was never found, but a reconstruction of its trajectory showed that it could not have been fired by Agca. Though Agca at first tried to protect Celik, who investigators say was "like a brother" to him, he eventually confessed that Antonov Celik was in the square, though only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Two Gunmen | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...aren't opening car doors for women or offering them seats on subways or buses. It goes deeper than that. The high crime rate is one thing that discourages openness and courtesy to strangers. The chances are that a man who takes an old lady's arm to help her across the street may be planning to grab her purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Our Manners Again | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

Reagan even appeared slightly annoyed before his speech when Shamie repeatedly grasped the President's right arm and hoisted it into a victory salute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Woos Youth at Rally | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

Thus far, more than 70 bones and fragments have been attributed to WT 15000. No two are duplicates and all are of the same stage of maturity, indicating that they belonged to the same individual. The only missing pieces of the skeletal puzzle are the hominid's left arm and hand, the right arm from the elbow down, and most of both feet. Leakey hopes to unearth those fragments next summer. The only other known near complete Homo erectus was discovered in 1975 by Leakey across Lake Turkana from the present dig. But that hominid had suffered from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasure on the Nariokotome | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...from U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel Bell calling for a spectrum of reforms to turn what was described as education's "tide of mediocrity." Now America's 3,300 universities and colleges are getting their turn under fire. The National Institute of Education, Bell's research arm, has issued a 99-page sequel every bit as rough as the blast leveled at the schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bringing Colleges Under Fire | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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