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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...electoral-reform movement emerged after Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's national-unity government collapsed last March in bitter disagreement over the peace process. Since then, the two main blocs and the handful of small religious parties that hold the balance of power have engaged in an especially crude game of barter. The five-member Liberal party demanded a $10 million bond to guarantee that a Likud-led coalition would stick to promises swapped for Liberal support. Labor leader Shimon Peres spent five weeks trying to purchase his own majority with generous offers of ministries and money to the religious parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Time for an Overhaul | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

Over the past year such violent Mohawk vs. Mohawk clashes have become commonplace on the 28,000-acre St. Regis reservation, as a bitter quarrel over lucrative casino operations has escalated into a virtual civil war. Heavily armed pro- and antigambling factions have battled for control of the main road through the reservation, which straddles the border between upstate New York and Canada's Quebec and Ontario provinces. Last week the fighting reached a new and bloody peak: thousands of shots were exchanged in a three-hour gun battle that left two dead. Hundreds of New York State troopers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mohawks, Money and Death | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...movie ends, a bitter drama. Einstein's biographers brushed her off as a gloomy Slav and a sloppy housekeeper, not quite bright enough to follow her husband into the new world of relativity, as if she deserved obscurity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Einstein In Love | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

Those were bitter words for a parliament whose members had voted only six weeks earlier, 124 to 6, to declare independence from the Soviet Union. But despite the economic crisis, there was virtually no sign last week that the rebellious Lithuanians were about to retreat. When President Vytautas Landsbergis addressed the group later in the day, he reaffirmed that the government was ready to carry on discussions with Moscow "at all levels, over any question" -- except the republic's declaration of independence. Moscow's use of "blockade as a means of political warfare," said Landsbergis, has turned the republic into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Running Out Of Gas? | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...million town houses during the past decade has turned out to have an unexpected vulnerability. Over just a few years, the heat of the sun triggers a chemical reaction that causes the wood to blacken, decay and eventually collapse. Result: a sudden epidemic of leaky buildings, expensive repairs and bitter lawsuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: My Roof's Got A Hole in It | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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