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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moslem insurgents began fighting in Afghanistan after a Communist coup in April 1978. Soviet military forces entered the coutry in December 1979 and an estimated 115,000 soldiers are there now to help fight the guerrillas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: USSR Nears Agreement in Afghanistan | 4/8/1988 | See Source »

Wednesday 6--In a major fundraising coup, Kennedy School Dean Graham Allison secures a pledge of $2.5 million from New York philanthropist J. Rodney Peeter. The money is slated to fund a new mid-career program for middle-aged, unemployed political scientists. In a statement released today, President Derek C. Bok announces that Peeter's gift was conditioned on his being offered a University post commensurate with the size of the unprecedented donation and that Peeter would replace Allison as K-School dean effective immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year to Come | 4/1/1988 | See Source »

...past policies: until evidence of Noriega's drug trafficking became too serious to ignore, the general had been a valued CIA asset. Last week the Administration continued to squeeze Panama's economy in an effort to oust Noriega, who hung on precariously despite widespread strikes, rioting and a coup attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Contra Tangle | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...yielded no TV breakthroughs but a few notable experiments. Sunday night's grab bag ranges from Werewolf, an oddly morose horror series, to The Tracey Ullman Show, a quirky half-hour of comedy sketches that qualifies as TV's most interesting near-miss. Fox has also scored a coup by acquiring It's Garry Shandling's Show, the shrewdly self-parodying cable sitcom, which is running on Fox after its initial airings on Showtime. The network's highest-rated show, 21 Jump Street, happens to be its best. A well-crafted, surprisingly intelligent police drama about a band of youthful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Little Network That Might | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

WORLD: A thwarted coup in Panama pushes Noriega toward the brink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Mar. 28, 1988 | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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