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Radcliffe College, however, is defunct...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Rejuvenating Radcliffe | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...million from 1976 to 1982 to obtain a lucrative contract to build the first Philippine nuclear power plant. The company last week reiterated that it had actually paid a grand total of $17 million over a ten-year period to Marcos Crony Herminio Disini, head of a now defunct construction conglomerate, to help cement the deal. Westinghouse insists the payments were legal and says it was unaware the money was destined for Marcos. The matter is being investigated by a grand jury in Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Chasing Marcos' Millions | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union--prevailed in 1976, but Savimbi's group, a Chinese proxy, failed to secure itself a role in the new government. This despite the Ford Administration's last-ditch commitment of $32 million in CIA aid to another "anti-communist" faction, the now-defunct National Front for the Liberation of Angola...

Author: By Sean L. Mckenna, | Title: Foreign Policy Fiasco | 3/13/1986 | See Source »

After living as a church worker in a Brooklyn black ghetto, Robertson ( eventually landed in Virginia's Tidewater with $70 in cash, an aged De Soto, and a vision of "claiming" a defunct UHF station for Jesus. The price (divinely ordained, as Robertson saw it): $37,000. WYAH went on the air in 1961 with a weak signal, one camera, and a movie projector that frequently jammed. But America's first Christian TV station was afloat, to be followed by others in Atlanta, Dallas and Boston. After overcoming struggles that Robertson attributed to "satanic oppression," the operation developed money- raising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Power, Glory - and Politics | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...Sullivan principles are defunct. They really no longer apply," said Howard Creed, a senior taking part in the protest...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Brandeis Students Build Shanty | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

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