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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the U.S. Government used a new antiterrorism law to attempt to shut down the Palestine Liberation Organization's United Nations observer mission last December, the U.N. was outraged. In a rare show of unity, the members, Israel excepted, voted that the U.S. action violated the headquarters agreement signed when the world body moved to New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: Hands Off The P.L.O. | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...announced resignation of Attorney General Edwin Meese III Tuesday was seen by many people as an attempt by Meese and the Reagan Administration to minimize the so-called "sleaze factor" before it damages the presidential aspirations of Vice President George Bush...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: A Bush-Meese Ticket Will Put The Sleaze Factor to Work | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard Graduate School of Education has joined eight other institutions in an unprecedented $3 million program that will attempt to increase the number of Black school-teachers, coordinators of the program said this week...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Harvard Aids in Search For Black Teachers | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

While the Stark and Vincennes tragedies underscore the difficulties inherent in any international peacekeeping attempt, they should not be used as an argument against the existing policy...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Time to Stay in the Gulf | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

...most of them were in opposition to the PRI, they were resigned to the fact that as it had won for the past six decades, so it would win again. I was left with the impression that many Mexican people did not feel any good would come of any attempt to change...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Mexico City Prepares for Election; Citizens Skeptical About Vote | 7/6/1988 | See Source »

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