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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AMHERST--Three white students have been ordered to undergo an alcohol education program, and two of them have been placed on disciplinary probation following an alleged attack on two Black students at the University of Massachusetts, a university spokeswoman said today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass Reprimands Two For Assault on Blacks | 3/15/1988 | See Source »

...When ammunition ran out, Wynn waded into battle, throwing rocks and canned C rations at the enemy. He was finally dropped by a Chinese grenade but survived to collect a Distinguished Service Cross. The maligned 24th Infantry, Blair points out, arrived from Japan 17 days after the North Korean attack, and within a week had taken the town of Yechon in what some observers regarded as the first U.S. victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Marks THE FORGOTTEN WAR by | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...political cover for them." Liberals fear that the presence of members with corporate ties will mean that any tax hikes will fall on individuals instead of on businesses. Agreement on spending cuts could be hard to reach, since several members have special interests. Weinberger, for example, may resist any attack on the defense budget, and Kleckner may want to protect farm subsidies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commission Impossible | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...superpowers, he proved quite helpless against the onslaughts of Dr. Fredric Wertham, onetime senior psychiatrist for New York City's department of hospitals and author of a widely read anticomics diatribe, Seduction of the Innocent (1953). Though much of Wertham's crusade was a commendable attack on the sadism in crime and horror comics, he denounced Superman before legislative committees on rather dubious political grounds. He attached weighty significance to the derivation of the name from Nietzsche, and to Nietzsche's supposed popularity among the Nazis. Wrote Wertham: "Superman (with a big S on his uniform -- we should, I suppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...sicker, their illnesses less predictable and their families more difficult to handle. Experimental treatments require close attention and study. "It's going to make everyone face the nursing shortage," says Jeanne Kalinoski, an AIDS nurse at a major New York City hospital. "If you have a heart attack in the emergency room, you might not get a bed because of the number of AIDS patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crisis In Nursing: Fed Up, Fearful And Frazzled | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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