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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...misinformation campaign" waged against him by South African security forces. But there is little doubt that his involvement with Moscow, if not formal, is at least fervent. Says Craig Williamson, a former South African security agent who infiltrated the party from 1971 to 1980: "Slovo is the classic South African Communist that the Soviets like -- tough, down the line, disciplined and utterly dedicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The Red and the Black | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard men's basketball game with Cornell last night had all the ingredients for a classic upset...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: M. Cagers Shine As Ivy League Spoilers | 2/28/1987 | See Source »

...REAGAN era is a dull age. Americans have become doped on the mystique that this former movie actor sells. We drink Classic Cokes, listen to classic hits and wear classically tailored clothes. But dullness is not fought with boring, unemotional candidates. If the nation is to wake to the needs of it people, there must be a candidate with rough edges on which we can sharpen the blade of American political consciousness...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Dateline America: | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

MUCH of the plot is caught up in replaying the simple overused stereotypes of country singers and evangelists. While Ron Duvernay (also the show's composer) plays Holly R. Thanthou in the classic style, creating an Anita Bryant-Jerry Falwell Frankenstein with a bouffant hairdo and glass of Consecrated Concentrate for everyone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bye Bye, Bye Bye Verdi | 2/25/1987 | See Source »

...settled back on the couch in front of the tube; on the screen Ronald Reagan was bashing various ethnic minorities into submission in the jungleland classic "Tropical Zone." The movie's soundtrack, probably a valuable primer to Reagan's foreign policy, was drowned out by the thrashing feedback screaming out of the Dinosaur's tapedeck. "Man, this band really sucks," he decided, replacing it with a virtually identical tonal mash...

Author: By John P. Thompson, BRAIN LINT: | Title: BRAIN LINT | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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