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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looking for a handout," Rossow said. "We're only looking to confirm what we already have...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Making a Bid for the Big Time | 12/16/1986 | See Source »

Just like students and spiral notebooks, computer owners will always need disks ($1-$3 each). Once again, before buying a set, make sure they are compatible with the computer in question. It's important to confirm with a salesman that certain disks will work with a specific computer...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Holiday Gift Ideas for That `Significant Other' | 12/3/1986 | See Source »

...based Fischbach, the largest electrical contractor in the U.S. Boesky had also bought 13.4% of the shares of that company. In September, Posner was granted a new trial by a federal judge who overturned his July conviction on charges of evading $1.2 million in income taxes. Posner will neither confirm nor deny that he was subpoenaed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going After the Crooks | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Koreans over loudspeakers along the 151-mile Demilitarized Zone that divides the two countries. The same rumors popped up independently in Peking, Hanoi and Tokyo, apparently before officials in Seoul began spreading the word. Until Kim's ceremonial airport appearance, the North Koreans did nothing either to dispel or confirm the story. Little could be made of their unresponsiveness: in one of the world's most hermetically sealed societies, official silence is the rule rather than the exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Now You See Kim ... | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...went to Vienna hoping to "clarify and confirm," in writing, the agreements reached at the Reykjavik summit. "We wanted to codify the progress made and nail down the remaining problems," said Shultz. The Secretary presented Shevardnadze with the specific wording of U.S. proposals for sharp cutbacks in intermediate-range missiles and their elimination in Europe, a 50% reduction in strategic missiles, a phase-out of underground nuclear testing through a step-by-step process, and a ten-year renunciation of the U.S.'s right to withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty restricting space-based defenses. "We asked them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy an Aftertaste of Regret | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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