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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cases before the House ethics committee are stacking up like planes at Washington's National Airport, and so are the embarrassments for Congress. After the committee investigates Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich for a questionable book deal, it must consider Ohio Republican Donald Lukens, convicted in May of having sex with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Skeleton in Barney's Closet | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

He has said however that he would consider not running for re-election if the incident begins to seriously hurt the liberal causes he believes in.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank Admits He Used Additional Prostitutes | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

Consider the irony, then, that the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, which is notorious for its plethora of pinstripe-clad Heroes of the Working Class, served Coors products at its meeting for Senior concentrators. It's not so easy being p.c. after all.

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: The P.C. Chronicle | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

Or consider Paris, which will soon be several driving hours closer to London as work on a tunnel under the English Channel forges ahead. The French capital is fast becoming a major diplomatic crossroads, a host to economic summits, peace negotiations on Cambodia and talks to limit the spread of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charging Ahead Watch out, Washington and Moscow. | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

In the face of pressure from abroad and complaints from environmentalists at home, Brazil has grudgingly begun to respond. In April, only a few months after denouncing the environmental movement as a foreign plot to seize the forests, the Sarney administration announced a hastily patched-together conservation package dubbed Our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Playing with Fire | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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