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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always preferred the skeleton to the witch costume, perhaps you would be more comfortable spending this Hallowe'en in a cemetary, rather than a store of the occult. Cemetaries are particularly appropriate places to spend Hallowe'en as it is the time when the dead are commemorated, remembered, and are seen walking the earth again. Both pagan and Christian philosophies believe this, so it must be true...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Of Witches, Warlocks and All Hallow's Eve | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

...last Thursday, third-year graduate studentThomas F. Trobaugh was found dead--the cause ofdeath apparently suicide--in the basement of hisSomerville home...

Author: By Sophia VAN Wingerden, | Title: Three Students at MIT Commit October Suicides | 10/29/1987 | See Source »

...people about unpleasant truths and leading them towards the difficult policies reality necessitates. From the first, Reagan took the opposite tack, making it sound as if all our woes as a nation could be cured with nary a discomforting turn. He said taxes would only be increased over his dead body. Well, the president is beginning to look a bit pallid about the cheeks. Walter Mondale, someone owes you an apology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ronald Hoover | 10/27/1987 | See Source »

...West Virginia-size island's Tamil minority. Tens of thousands of terrified civilians were caught in the middle of the fighting. Most of them abandoned their homes and huddled in temples and schools, as food supplies grew scarce. By week's end Indian officials put their casualties at 86 dead and 260 wounded. They claimed to have killed some 500 Tigers, but the guerrillascharged that most of the dead were civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lanka The Battle for Jaffna | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...Beau-Rivage Hotel last week for an interview with Politician Uwe Barschel, they got a bigger scoop than they bargained for. The journalists found Barschel, 43, who had recently resigned as minister-president of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, sitting in the bathtub, clothed, upright and very much dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: A Mystery in The Bath | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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