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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end mediation efforts and formal talks were still going on, and hope for some breakthrough continued to flicker. But the outlook was grim. Observed Poland Expert Adam Bromke, a political science professor at Ontario's McMaster University: "The whole thing has the makings of a Greek tragedy. All the actors know they are heading for disaster. But they appear to be under a spell they cannot break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Back to the Precipice | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...Atkins' Nutrition Breakthrough, Atkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Apr. 6, 1981 | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...through a state bureaucracy that would prefer she found an other subject. Her Mr. Deeds is a brick layer named Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Earnest and innocent, he pioneered a faster method of doing his job in the Stalinist '50s. But one man's technological breakthrough is an other's speedup: though the government publicizes him as a Stakhanovite, he is resented by other workers. One of them passes him hot bricks during a demonstration, maiming him. When his best friend is accused of the crime, Mateusz fights to free him and is himself placed on show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Brick Wall | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

Progress, but still no breakthrough in Atlanta

Author: /time Magazine | Title: City of Fear | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...most of the killings. Some authorities also believe there may be one or more "copy cat" killers. The pattern, many blacks fear, is part of a racial plot or vendetta. Still, there have been no arrests, and au thorities do not consider their new findings to be a breakthrough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: City of Fear | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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