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...result of changing electoral democraphics and the President's personal popularity, the Republicans will pick up some seats--maybe 12 or 15. But such a number won't be enough to disturb the Democratic check on policy...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: A House Divided Won't Be Won Over | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

Douglas Fulton, editor of the Dartmouth Review, said that Polenz attended the meeting to find out how the GSA spends its $475 annual grant from the school and that she used the tape recorder so she would not disturb the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth May Punish Student Writer | 10/11/1984 | See Source »

...aborigines' success gives new heart to American Indians, who for years have been pressing state governments to hand over ancestral bones and tribal artifacts, many of which are gathering dust in museum basements. "We believe you should not disturb the dead," says Sioux Indian Maria Pearson of Marne, Iowa, a leader of her tribe's efforts to reclaim bones. To date, Native Americans have had only limited success. In 1981 Yurok Indians in California persuaded the state to return seven ancestral skeletons, which were then reburied. Iowa and Minnesota have passed laws requiring that archaeologists consult with Native...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Burying Bones of Contention | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

There was plenty of pomp and cordiality, all part of the now familiar ritual of summitry. Of substance, there was much less to record. Open disharmony was almost unthinkable, leaving little to disturb the elevated camaraderie that dominated three days of meetings as the leaders of the major non-Communist industrialized nations (the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada) gathered last week for their tenth annual economic summit meeting. .The sessions at London's pillared, flag-bedecked Lancaster House were just the kind of success that the host, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, had hoped they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summitry: A Most Exclusive Club | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

...President's statements were intended to smother some of the prospects for discord at the summit, and they succeeded. Few of the issues that should have divided the seven leaders were allowed to disturb the tone of the meeting, even though, as the gathering concluded, about 150,000 antinuclear demonstrators marched in London to protest the presence of both Reagan and U.S.-built cruise missiles in Britain. By the end of the meeting, the leaders had summed up their deliberations in a blizzard of generally inoffensive documents: an economic communiqué, a "Declaration on Democratic Values," a statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summitry: A Most Exclusive Club | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

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