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...Eighteen demonstrators staging a sit-in at the U.S. Army recruiting office last month in Amherst, near the campus of the University of Massachusetts were arrested for trespassing and were dragged away by police in front of a crowd of supporters...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Amherst Demo | 2/16/1983 | See Source »

Meese: No because I feel that a person who benefits from the taxpayer's in terms of financial aid, also has an obligation to obey the law. And one of the laws that a person has to obey is the law that requires registration for those eighteen years old and over...

Author: By Rep. JAMES Wright, | Title: The 1984 Reagan Budget | 2/12/1983 | See Source »

...touch those of us who grew up with Mission Impossible and Jeopardy. Nor is the rest of today's popular culture forgotten: Star Wars-types titles and the Battlestar Galactica theme begin this film and, within minutes, E.T. appears in a pay phone booth. Those not in the eighteen to thirty age bracket will miss these reverential spoofs, but the puns and wordplay should be universally accessible. Three officers, names Over, Under and Done, involve themselves in the obvious ranking problems: was Under Over, or was Under over Done? And there are boundless throw-away lines: Ted is praised...

Author: By Clen Simon, | Title: Joke Trek | 12/14/1982 | See Source »

Turnage dismissed the protestors and said that most draft-age citizens support registration "I do not see many eighteen year-olds protesting registration" he said...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Draft Foes Protest at Chief's Visit | 12/2/1982 | See Source »

Khrushchev evidently decided Kennedy could be pushed around, and so he ordered nuclear missiles placed in Cuba. Khrushchev badly misread Kennedy. Eighteen years later Brezhnev measured Jimmy Carter during the Vienna summit of 1979; he subsequently decided that the Soviets could invade Afghanistan without serious consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Locking Eyes at the Top | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

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