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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PANAMA CITY, Panama--Soldiers in battle gear ringed U.S. military bases near the tense capital yesterday following the fatal shooting of an American officer in the worst confrontation between Panama and the United States in 25 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American, Panamanian Forces on Alert | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...Massachusetts House handed Speaker George Keverian '53 a personal defeat yesterday and struck a potentially fatal blow to a deficit-reducing tax package by voting against a 50 percent increase in the capital gains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State House Nixes Tax Increase | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

...have changed the atmosphere, and thus we are changing the weather. By changing the weather, we make every spot on earth man-made and artificial. We have deprived nature of its independence, and that is fatal to its meaning. Nature's independence is its meaning; without it there is nothing...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Predicting an End to the 'Sweet and Wild Garden' | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...said early descriptions of AIDS as "fatal," "mysterious," "out-of-nowhere," and "unknown" influenced the public's perception of AIDS. Later, television focused primarily on gay, middle-class white males for story material or photographed poor Blacks shooting crack in dark alleyways, stereotyping AIDS as a disease of drug abusers and gay men alone...

Author: By Mark K. Wiedman, | Title: Panel Debates Media, AIDS | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

This fall the moviegoer has a choice of two Black Rains set in Japan, but they're not hard to tell apart. One is Shohei Imamura's stark meditation on Hiroshima 1945. The other is a cop movie backed by some heavy Hollywood artillery: the producers of Fatal Attraction. Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia are two New York City detectives on the trail of a cool, vicious Japanese gangster (Yusaku Matsuda). Their contact in the Osaka constabulary is a by- the-book gent (Ken Takakura) affronted by Douglas' bullying. You've seen this picture before; last year it was called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bakelite In Heat | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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