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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pursue an informal proposal that Nitze had discussed with Yuli Kvitsinsky, the Soviet INF negotiator at Geneva. As one Administration official recalls, it offered "the glimmer of a damned good outcome." William Clark, Reagan's National Security Adviser, criticized both Rostow and Nitze for not staying in closer contact with the White House. Nitze responded with a question, "How can you negotiate with a guy if you can't talk to him?" After the incident, contends one American official, "there was a noticeable hardening of the Soviet position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uproar over Arms Control | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...poignant fear about his son's future. A great deal of social turmoil would erupt in the years following the Birmingham protests. The Black revolution that Malcolm X predicted held sway in riots, police confrontation, and in race relations strained to the breaking point. King himself sought to move closer to this revolution by heading street marches in Chicago and Memphis. Through the tumult rang his steady voice of courage and faith. It recalled the eloquence of the founders of this nation in its quest for the dignity...

Author: By Archie C. Epps iii, | Title: Martin Luther King And His Times | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...although all four are appearing this season. And British Soprano Margaret Price, who sings in the major international houses, has never sung there. Somewhat ingenuously, Levine blames their absence partly on the Met's distance from Europe. Even in the Concorde age, he contends, they prefer to work closer to home, no more than a couple of hours' flight from Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra or Milan's La Scala, rather than take up extended residence in New York. Further, Levine says, the heavily subsidized European houses can afford to pay as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maestro of the Met: James Levine is the most powerful opera conductor in America | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

Both visions are fantasies, cartoons of the harder, drearier, subtler economic realities. The first is closer to the truth. Unfortunately, the months of recession and traumatic unemployment have begun to attract many Americans to the second vision, the protectionist illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Protectionist Temptation | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...sort of died the last 10 minutes." Dartmouth Coach Tim Cohane said after the game. "It was certainly a closer game than 18 points...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Plutnicki Scores 18 Points As Cagers Destroy Dartmouth | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

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