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Yesterday's game was the Crimson's biggest challenge to date, and except for some sloppy, slow play in the second period the team met it in fine fashion...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Chew Up, Spit Out Big Red, 6-3 | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Consumer-advocate groups had contended that aspartame was linked to many adverse reactions, including dizziness, depression and seizures. But the FDA said that aspartame had been found safe for the vast majority of people, except for a small number who appear to be especially sensitive to it. Aspartame's critics promised to take their case to court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Regulation: Sweets to the Sweetener | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...comments Wednesday in Paris to Frenchreporters, the defense secretary said thepresident's advisers were wrong in telling himthat there were moderate elements in Iran withwhom Washington could negotiate. Weinberger saidit appeared that there is no one to talk with inTehran except "fanatical lunatics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Widens Arms Sales Probe | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...almost any subject, Schlesinger is capable of striking grace notes, like his throwaway line on Aaron Burr: "A man of undoubted talents who, however, was trusted by no one in the long course of American history except for his daughter Theodosia and Gore Vidal." But Schlesinger is playing his nimble variations on substantial themes: the awkward partnership of a free economy and government, the complexities of foreign policy for a people tempted toward both interventionism and isolationism, the paradoxes of leadership constantly answerable to the voter. Whether the subject at hand is Viet Nam or the cold war, Schlesinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ad Lib the Cycles of American History | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...staged a mock trial of Richard III for British TV in 1984. Looking for another historical crime to "try" on TV, the producers turned to the Kennedy assassination. Unlike earlier fictional treatments like the 1977 ABC movie The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, the program has no script and (except for extras) uses no actors. Two prominent attorneys were enlisted to argue the case. For the prosecution: Vincent Bugliosi, 52, the former Los , Angeles deputy district attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson. For the defense: Gerry Spence, 57, who successfully represented Karen Silkwood's family in a suit against the Kerr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: What If Oswald Had Stood Trial? | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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