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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jean's fiancee, the cook Christine (Martha Lane Moore). It is not clear who is seducing whom, but Julie and Jean soon overcome their inhibitions, and when Christine falls asleep, the two find an excuse to flee to the bedroom. Immediately after, they realize that the ensuing scandal could destroy them both, and in their argument over how to escape their predicament, each tries to drag the other through the slime of ultimate degradation...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Guns of August | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...beginning of the rally offered more disruption than organizers expected, as a man carrying a sign that said "Fight and Destroy Jewish Zionist Conspiracy Today. Tomorrow may be too late," was pushed down the steps of University Hall where speakers were to stand...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: 500 Remember Protests of 1969 | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the accident appeared to involve a Soviet "Mike" submarine--one of the Russian Navy's newer attack subs designed to hunt and destroy other submarines in the event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Sub Suffers Accident Off Norway | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

...Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources approved legislation to allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Experts believe the field may hold enough oil to supply U.S. needs for about 20 months. But the bill will face fierce opposition from conservationists who argue that drilling could destroy caribou, polar bears and other wildlife. Opposition could be bolstered by last week's Alaskan oil spill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Step on The Gas, Pay the Price | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...boasting up to 130,000 head of livestock, 800 workers who sold 10,000 liters of milk a day, and 170 administrative and technical advisers. A column of guerrillas armed with machine guns, members of the 5,000-strong Maoist revolutionary group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), marched in to destroy everything and starve anyone who did not cooperate with them. The rebels killed or took most of the animals, executed one director and three administrators of the co-op, and destroyed tractors, before disappearing into the countryside. Today the cooperative is nearly deserted, and those who remain live in constant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru Lurching Toward Anarchy | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

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