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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighborhoods. Gazing down sternly from his bench in Manhattan at four Yonkers councilmen, the jurist delivered a tongue- lashing. "What we're clearly confronted with is a total breakdown of any sense of responsibility," he charged. "What we have here is a competition to see . . . who can be the biggest political martyr. There does have to come a moment of truth, a moment when the city of Yonkers seeks not to become a national symbol of defiance to civil rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yonkers, NY: A House Divided | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...hard having two preachers for parents," says David, who feels the twin yoke of religion and strict parental supervision. David describes the biggest lesson he has learned from his parents. "Not to cuss or go to beer joints or girly bars. Well, they haven't told me not to go to girly bars, but they wouldn't like it. They don't like for us to do anything that a Christian wouldn't do. If I did that, they'd kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: David, West Virginia | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

John David's biggest uncertainty involves drugs. Will he succumb to pressures to take drugs? At Bedichek, there is a club called B.A.D. (Bobcats Against Drugs) and T shirts proclaiming the club's message: I'M HAPPY TO BE S.A.D. (Students Against Drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Eyes of Children: John David, Austin | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...separate raids, Spanish authorities last week seized 15 tons of pure hashish and nabbed two of the world's biggest drug smugglers. Acting on tips from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in Miami, police detained British-born, Oxford-educated Dennis Howard Marks, whose alias is Marco Polo. U.S. officials believe Marks has been responsible for importing nearly 15% of America's marijuana over the past several years. Until his arrest, the drug lord lived quietly on Majorca -- "to escape British taxes," he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Smugglers On Ice | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

What sort of men get high ratings from this publication? Few score higher than Sen. Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina). Helms is the biggest opponent of civil rights in the Senate, and the strongest backer of (anti-family?) government handouts to (anti-moral?) tobacco producers, a fact Biblical Scoreboard never reveals. The magazine also doesn't mention Helms' record of opposing programs which help the poor and the sick...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: What the Bible Says | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

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