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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Once again," said Prime Minister Bob Hawke of Australia, "TIME has scooped its competitors." While other Australian publications had been planning projects to mark the country's 200th birthday, TIME AUSTRALIA was unveiling its lavish special issue ahead of most of the pack. At a ceremony in Melbourne two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Nov. 30, 1987 | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

The process can be painful. A 31-year-old daughter read her alcoholic parents a letter in which she described how she had seen her mother change "from the best friend I ever had" to an unhappy and unreliable woman. "The good parts of your character," she said, "are being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out in the Open | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

No one wanted me to stop drinking more than I did. What I could not say was that I did not know how to do it. Every day, the inability inspired waves of remorse and self-loathing. But in my fearfulness, I stayed willfully ignorant of alcoholism. I would walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diary of A Drunk | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Not to the press's proper occupation of examining candidates but to an increasing preoccupation with finding minute character flaws. The event that was giving pause to Gannon and others was the recent addition of marijuana use -- no matter when it occurred -- as a scandale du jour. The tendency to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Rethinking The Fair Game Rules | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Yeltsin grew a little too outspoken at a meeting of the policymaking Central Committee in late October. Interrupting the agenda, the Moscow party chief delivered a harangue accusing senior leaders of obstructing his efforts to bring about perestroika. Exactly what he said remains unclear. Gorbachev, in his attack on Yeltsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union I Am Very Guilty | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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