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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Evans also worries about diseases being transmitted to dolphins. Two of the Hyatt's dolphins were found dead in the lagoon last spring, raising suspicions that they had been infected by swimmers. Ironically, they turned out to be victims of attempts to make the lagoon more natural: they were poisoned by tainted reef fish that had swum in from the ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: An Uneasy Dip with the Dolphins | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

After the Navy suffered a string of peacetime casualties in recent weeks from shipboard fires, collisions and plane crashes that left ten dead and 71 injured, it was ready for an unprecedented step. For two days last week, the Navy conducted a service-wide "stand-down." Though essential functions such as drug interdiction and Persian Gulf ship movements continued, the service halted all routine operations for two days while every officer and sailor reviewed safety procedures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casualties Of Peace | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...talks broke off three weeks ago amid a surge in civilian killings and rumors of a guerrilla offensive, no one imagined that the war would be brought from the countryside right into the capital. But there are two roads to peace: one paved with goodwill, the other littered with dead bodies. Last week the rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) took the road less traveled in recent years, and the savage fighting that resulted will leave Salvadorans reeling for months to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador The Battle for San Salvador | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...years the Jesuits had taught El Salvador's young and struggled to bring peace to the country. Ellacuria's fierce hawklike face fairly shouted his fury at those responsible for the war's 70,000 dead, right wing and left. He had managed to anger both. Martin cared about the simple people; he would spend his weekends offering Mass and teaching first aid in the impoverished countryside. I found him a reliable source of information, especially because he oversaw the country's least biased public-opinion polls. A few years ago, a colleague asked Martin if there was any hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cold Blood | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...auction. And by 1988, when the auction room had been promoted into a Reagan-decade cathouse of febrile extravagance, where people in black tie and jewels applauded winning bids as though they were arias sung by heroic tenors, private dealers (at least those dealing in the work of dead artists) had less margin of resale to work with. Their market share today is still enormous, but the auction houses are after it, and it is shrinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sold! The Art Market: Goes Crazy | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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