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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with what has to be one of the most innovative plays seen this year. After getting a high stick near the eye from Pittsburgh's Paul Baxter. Nilan attacked his assailant, who wisely covered up in a heap on the ice. As he made his way to the penalty box. Nilan heard some remarks from Baxter which he apparently did not care for. Thinking that the moment required some decisive action. Nilan picked up a loose puck and, from the penalty box, winged it across the ice at Baxter, nailing him squarely on the head. The upshot was a three...
...raising questions about the Administration's sensitivity to issues of fairness and racial justice. The President compounded the uneasiness by projecting, with amiable vacuity, an unsteady hand on the tiller of state at his seventh press conference last week. He displayed a disconcerting lode of misinformation (see box), and a dubious grasp of the details of his own programs. The performance raised new questions about Reagan's control of the presidency, which were being asked even by some of the far rightists who helped elect him. At a meeting of conservatives organized by New Right Leaders Richard Viguerie...
...crackdown. But martial law, says Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, now provides "an umbrella for conducting necessary economic and social reforms." By the same logic, however, an easing of repression would invite open protest. Admits Rakowski, the onetime party liberal who has become a key figure in the regime (see box): "We cannot lift martial law today or tomorrow. We would just return to the situation before Dec. 13, and this modern polonaise-the strike dance-would start anew...
...unity by force after four weeks of martial law. If his troops had managed to crush the last of the major strikes and restore outward order, the regime had won neither loyalty nor respect from the Polish people. A stubborn spirit of resistance still lived in the land (see box, following page...
...arcades. Bally's development people think it is fun, but right now, no one has any idea whether it will be a lap jumper or a puddle maker. "This is the most democratic business in the world," says Mount Prospect, Ill., Arcade Owner Bill Herman. "You got a ballot box, and people vote with their quarters...