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...page text bore a cumbersome title: Ideology of Renewal for Revolutionary Perestroika. But Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's speech at last week's Central Committee plenum was a spirited defense of the ambitious economic and social reform policies that he has championed under the banner of perestroika, or restructuring. On topics ranging from party doctrine and Soviet history to cultural freedom and foreign policy, the General Secretary called for continued change while identifying his own innovations with the Communist ideals of Lenin. "We are striving," he declared, "to revive the Leninist look of the new system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Borrowing a Leaf from Lenin | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...some of the approximately 1600 students who received red dots on their registration packets said they felt less polite than they appeared. Students whose envelopes bore the dreaded red spots were prohibited from registering because some portion of their term bill remained unpaid...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Harvard Hazards: Red Dots, Green Dots... | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

...ocean surface at speeds up to 35 knots, the Seawolf will carry an arsenal of sophisticated acoustical homing torpedoes that can track and attack submarines and surface ships. From almost 100 ft. down, a mix of nuclear-tipped or conventional missiles and mines will be launched through eight large-bore torpedo tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murky Waters for the Supersub | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...Memphis motel balcony, blacks standing over a fallen black man, their faces abruptly up and their fingers stabbing the air, indicting the air, along the line the shot had taken, as if the trajectory of their fingers' aim could bore back through the air to the assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1968 Like a knife blade, the year severed past from future | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...really his fault, mind, but some confusion has always attended John Jarvis' music. When he was pumping the piano in Rod Stewart's band, he bore down hard on the rockers. Then he would slip on down the street to another recording studio and move gently along the keys for an Art Garfunkel ballad. When Stewart and Garfunkel once got to comparing the merits of their favorite keyboardists, it took them a while to realize that they were both talking about Jarvis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Traveling Without a Map | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

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