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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months ago, has been angling to ensure his own domination of any future government. Shevardnadze appears to be growing impatient, and he issued a thinly veiled warning to Afghans who place "personal aspirations above the interests of the nation." Or, more to the point, above Moscow's determination to bring Ivan home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan In Search of the Nearest Exit | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...constitute a large pile of chips. Says Nathan Landow, a fund raiser who helped coax Gore into the race: "If he doesn't get the top spot, he is the obvious running mate for any Northerner under any scenario, including a late entry by Mario Cuomo. Al Gore would bring all the necessary pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Early Lock on Veep, at Least | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Rumors have it that opposing goaltenders bring out a pack of cards and play solitaire as the Yale offense struts its stuff between the blue lines...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Yale Finally Breaks the Ice...and More Stuff I Think | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

...American foreign policy and in American psychology about the rest of the world. Ever since, any attempts to assert American force have twitched a neo-isolationist nerve. Only easy knockouts like Grenada seem tolerable, and then only if done so quickly that television has no time to bring the carnage into the house. But for the experience of Viet Nam, the U.S. might have invaded Nicaragua by now; the threat there is more immediate, the logistics easier. Instead, the battle is waged by proxy, sloppily and tentatively and erratically. "Involvement" and "commitment" have become dangerous words, alive with the demons...

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

...heard Beethoven's Fifth. "For the first-time viewer, you've got to have Bohemes and Toscas and Carmens," says Ardis Krainik, general manager of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, whose company this season had an unexpected hit with Glass's Satyagraha. "Those are the things they need to bring them back again." But is sheer repetition of a handful of staples the way to cultivate new audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Let's Do the Time Warp Again | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

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