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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The anticrime campaign is a more subtle reflection of the maneuvering to shore up Deng. Genuinely popular, the drive has as its official purpose simply eradicating a growing number of violent crimes. Every day, public bulletin boards are plastered with new execution notices, while grim truckloads of prisoners are driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: New Purges | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

A new quarterback and an old linebacker provided the stay of execution, guiding the Harvard football team through a 28-26 squirmer over Princeton Saturday at the Stadium.

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Gizzi, Azelby Lead Gridders by Tigers | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Danton the latest film by Andrzej Wajda (Man of Iron), sees the upheaval from the moderate perspective. Wajda retells the familiar story of Georges Danton, a popular Parisian killed by the revolution he helped create. Danton's attempt to slow down the ruthless waging of the revolution threatened Robespierre and...

Author: By Seth A. Tucker, | Title: Tale of Two Cities | 10/19/1983 | See Source »

James David ("Cowboy") Autry, 29, spent much of last Tuesday talking calmly with a Presbyterian minister and a Roman Catholic priest at the Huntsville, Texas, prison known as The Walls. At 6:30 p.m. he was served a final meal; he had chosen an unusually mundane one of hamburger with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Thirty-One Minutes from Death | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

At the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Byron White, who oversees the Fifth Circuit, was standing by for a possible new plea in the Autry case. While the circuit court's opinion was being read into a Supreme Court tape recorder, Alvin Bronstein, executive director of the A.C.L.U.'s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Thirty-One Minutes from Death | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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