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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 50 black protesters, most of the them Harvard students, stage a mill-in at University Hall to demand that Harvard divest itself of its 680,000 shares of Gulf Oil stock. They charge that Gulf, through investment in Portugese colonies in Africa, "facilitates the daily slaughter of Africans...

Author: By George T. Hill, | Title: Flashback to 1971-'72 | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...most of the 13 years since Britain agreed to return Hong Kong to Chinese control, a majority of the citizens stayed on the sidelines. Only after Beijing crushed the pro-democracy movement in 1989 did Hong Kong's ordinary folk begin to demand an active role. Without China's approval, British Governor Chris Patten altered a century and a half of colonial tradition by introducing a package of political reforms to make the local legislature more democratic. Enter Martin Lee, whose eloquent outrage over Tiananmen earned his Democratic Party and its allies 17 of the chamber's 20 directly elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG FACE-OFF | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...China resumes sovereignty. Enter C.H. Tung. The territory's first homegrown leader was chosen by a 400-member selection committee that was itself picked by Beijing. The quietly effective power broker seemed uniquely qualified to bridge the gap between Hong Kong's promised autonomy and the new landlord's demand for control. For a time, Tung seemed to manage the delicate balancing act. He paid fealty to the "Chinese values" revered by his patrons even as he voiced confidence he could maintain Hong Kong's Western-style ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG FACE-OFF | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...collapsible trailers that can be towed to a destination behind most any car and then cranked up to full size. A University of Michigan study found that RV ownership has grown by an average of 100,000 a year since the middle of the past decade, and forecasts that demand will rise to 135,000 a year for the next 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RV HAVING FUN YET? | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...even the most thoroughly trodden beat--most notably in 1986, when he broke the details of a top-secret U.S. attack on Libya 36 hours before the strike occurred. He's also adept at turning a story's thesis on its head, if that's what the facts demand. "Duffy's strength is that he has perfect radar," says senior editor Priscilla Painton. "He can instinctively sense where the story is going next and what the questions 10 days from now will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Jun. 2, 1997 | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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