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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then fail to prevent those who carried out these acts from passing through areas under its control? And why did the other Lebanese forces also fail to prevent them from crossing their areas? Why did the American forces fail? In other words, all those who failed are not responsible except for Syria. There is no logic in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with President Assad | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...that referred to inside information from the Jimmy Carter campaign staff in 1980. The Judiciary Committee has received at least eight such papers from a house subcommittee that tried unsuccessfully to determine how the Reagan campaign team acquired documents used to prepare Carter for his 1980 debate with Reagan. Except for one of the memos he has been asked about, Meese has told the Senators that he has "no recollection" of having seen them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Friends and Bad Memory | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...addition to these U.S. domestic matters, Hussein and the other moderate Arabs are increasingly alarmed about the failure of American policy in Lebanon and the degree to which this may embolden Syria to strengthen its position at their expense. The Marines are gone from Beirut, except for a contingent guarding the U.S. embassy; a member of the embassy staff, Political Officer William Buckley, was kidnaped by three men at gunpoint as he left his apartment in West Beirut last Friday morning. Also gone, along with the Marine peace-keeping force, were the Reagan Administration's dreams of helping President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: His Majesty Is Not Pleased | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...Poland, despite its overwhelming Catholic population, has no tradition of school prayers But, except for a brief Stalinist antireligious period following World War II, crucifixes supplied by various sources have been classroom fixtures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: The Church Strives for Order | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...what these buyouts mean for his rosy economic plans. While his huge budget deficit is the most obvious culprit in tightening up the loan market, $12 billion and $13 billion loans to oil companies to engage in utterly unproductive takeovers further restrict available credit with nothing to show afterward except inflated (or bruised) corporate egos and wealthy lawyers. (Socal's bankers and attorneys walked off with $60 million when the dust settled...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Trying for More | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

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