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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remains circumscribed by his career as a televangelist. The limits of his appeal were apparent last Friday, when he stunned the G.O.P. Western Conference in Seattle by referring to Bush as a "whiny loser" and later attacked Reagan for negotiating with the Soviet Union. Applause for such remarks was faint and scattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the Wingers? | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...Cambridge. He lived in a rent controled, Harvard-owned apartment until the University sold the place to a faculty member. Since it was then owner-occupied, the rent tripled and Tom had to retreat to Brookline. Touring the streets of his urban gallery, Tom greets HRE trucks with a faint call, "Hey there, remember...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Friendly Artist Makes Cambridge His Galllery | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

...Woodward asked. Casey's faint reply: "I believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did A Dead Man Tell No Tales? | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...faint possibility that Israel might nuke the Soviet Union is not what the tiff is really about. Though Israel has never officially admitted building the new missile, let alone acknowledged that it produces nuclear warheads, the Jewish state has been known to be testing such a missile for at least a year. Analysts say the Kremlin is speaking out now only because it is engaged in a delicate diplomatic minuet. On the one hand, Moscow is pressuring the U.S. and its European allies to eliminate all medium-range missiles as part of a larger arms-control agreement. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armaments Battle of Jericho | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...until 7 a.m. on Thursday that Agent Saathoff heard the faint plea for help from Tostado. The coyote was believed to have fled back to Mexico. William Harrington, assistant chief of the El Paso Border Patrol, conceded that "we may never get our hands on him." The closest Harrington may come is the coyote's two confederates, whose sordid business led them to death in the boxcar that became a coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boxcar That Became a Coffin | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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