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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue was Washington's increasing distance from its closest allies for failing to repudiate South Africa's boldest military venture since it committed troops to the Angolan civil war in 1975. For well over a week, an estimated 4,000 South African troops had ranged over southwestern Angola, seeking out new air defense systems said to have been set up to deter South African cross-border raids. After previous South African incursions, and subsequent calls for condemnation of South Africa at the U.N., the U.S. had abstained from chastising Pretoria and at least once joined a vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Marching to Pretoria's Beat | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...they had been dared once too often to take the risk, French voters this week chose Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, 64, an unflappable veteran politician whom many thought a perennial loser, as the fourth President of the Fifth Republic. They thus embarked on the country's boldest venture toward the left since 1936, setting the stage for a risky economic transformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: MItterrand: A Socialist Victory | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...they fight against the background of a bright orange sky, the bloodshot sun hanging low. The strange atmosphere of unreality intensifies with the entrance of Merlin (Nicol Williamson) who emerges from the mist covered in black robes, his head adorned with a glistening silver skull cap. Uther (Gabriel Byrne), boldest of the knights--soon-to-be father of Arthur--hacks through the earnage and calls out to Merlin "I must be King! I must have that sword! I must have Excalibur!" Merlin cackles "In time, Uther, in time." It's a marvelous seene. It promises L'Mort d'Arthur...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Blood and Sex and Chivalry | 4/17/1981 | See Source »

...Administration's senior officials, Stockman is clearly the boldest and the most ideological. He often uses sweeping, strident language, as when he called the federal budget an "automatic coast-to-coast soup line." He revels in taking unpopular positions and shows disdain for most economists: "They've been dead wrong, persistently." While he wants the Government to reduce most social welfare programs drastically, he would make even deeper cuts in subsidies for business interests and agriculture. Though Republicans generally blame most of the economy's present difficulties on Democratic folly, Stockman believes that one of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Cutting Edge | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...present strike movement, in contrast to earlier protests, has been the success of the dissident intellectuals at forging links with the workers and winning their support even for abstract issues such as freedom of expression and human rights. KOR is believed to be largely responsible for framing the strikers' boldest political demands; it has also provided Western reporters with detailed information on the numbers of workers and factories affected by the strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Poland's Angry Workers | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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