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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Efforts to ban the same banner from the statehouses of South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia have also failed. But the fight goes on. Says Earl Shinhoster, regional director of the N.A.A.C.P.: "The increased waving of that flag, of singing Dixie and the rise in racial hate groups mean it is time to take a concerted effort to remove these symbols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Symbols: Capture The Flag | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...exercised in the nude, Greek Olympians probably never envisioned Winter Games. But there must be a charm to chilblains, for the more appealing of the quadrennial conventions in the Olympics' two-party system is often the younger, smaller, more mysterious winter segment. Just the thought ^ of a global snowball fight is amusing, but think of it as a happier reason for the world to shiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Preview: On Your Marks | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...what made the Albany, N.Y.-native's improbable fight against the Olympic Committee even more surprising is that alternates rarely compete...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Harvard Sledder Fights Onto U.S. Olympic Squad | 2/13/1988 | See Source »

...pilot, 38-year-old Floyd Carlton, also said Noriega personally authorized air shipments of weapons to leftist guerillas in El Salvador and to Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua during the Sandinistas' successful fight to overthrow the government of Anastasio Somoza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noriega Provided Training For Contras | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...team, a team that has lost more than it has won, a team that needed something to put the bloom back in its cheeks. B.C.'s 4-2 win over Harvard--nationally-ranked Harvard--gave the Eagles a shade, if only a pale shade, of momentum going into the fight for the last playoff spot...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Pot-Luck For B.C. | 2/10/1988 | See Source »

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