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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effective at pressuring others. If our allies and the non-aligned nations see us practicing in El Salvador what we preach in Poland, then they may summon the courage to back our efforts elsewhere. At the very least, we would rob the Soviets of their most powerful--and most correct--propaganda weapon: that we are often as bad as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clean Our Own Hands, Too | 12/15/1981 | See Source »

...College Football Association, a splinter group including 61 of the nation's most powerful football schools. The top dogs in college football--concerned above all with controlling the game's multi-million-dollar television contract--will no longer be at all accountable to universities that place football in its correct perspective in campus life. With this concession to the professionalism already rampant in the sport, the NCAA will likely deemphasize the regulation and enforcement of recruiting violations and other transgressions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Penalty for Scholar-Athletes | 12/15/1981 | See Source »

Dixon's injury--which has been tentatively diagnosed as severely strained foot ligaments--will be examined today. If the preliminary prognosis proves correct, Dixon will not compete for six or eight more weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Upset Army, 79-57; Dixon Reinjured in Comeback | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...emotional effect of the screen version of Whose Life Is It Anyway? is quite the opposite of the play on which it is based. One left Brian Clark's drama feeling that Ken Harrison, the promising sculptor whom an auto accident had turned into a quadriplegic, was tragically correct to insist, against all the established medical and legal verities, on being allowed to die. One leaves the movie feeling that he is tragically wrong in that determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Right Spirit, Wrong Cause | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...holes, nor will we deploy 100 missiles in 1000 holes. We have concluded that these basing schemes would be just as vulnerable as the existing Minuteman silos...no matter how many shelters we might build, the Soviets can build more missiles, more quickly and just as cheaply." This statement, correct in my opinion, puts an end to the sequence of deceptive basing solutions advanced by the Air Force and the Defense Department under President Carter...

Author: By Richard L. Garwin, | Title: Reagan's Strategic Plan: Right on the MX, Wrong on the B-1 | 12/11/1981 | See Source »

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