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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flannery called the upcoming battle "the wrong fight at the wrong time" and feared that it will over-shadow the convention...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Republican Party Gears Up For State Convention | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

Malone claimed that the fight will not weaken the party but will strengthen it. "Quiet following is not what is necessary to make a strong party. Competition in politics is what makes a party grow. The party needs a jump start and this has woken a lot of people...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Republican Party Gears Up For State Convention | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

...destruction of Israel and the continued harassment of its principal sponsor, the U.S. "It is too easy and simplistic to dismiss Gaddafi as mad," said a Western diplomat in Tripoli. "He genuinely believes the cause is just, so there's no deflecting him. He'll pursue his fight with the U.S. until he dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of Mischief | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

There are no speeding-car chases or high-tech weapons, just Middle Ages state- of-the-art horse and armor. Still, in her screen debut, Deborah Leigh Moore felt a definite kinship with the dapper 007 portrayed by her dad Roger Moore. "I fight the Tafurs and the Saracens with sword and dagger, and I joust in tournaments with a lance on horseback," says Deborah, who has just been filming Lionheart on location in Portugal. "I feel like I am playing the feminine side of the sort of thing my father used to do." A generation and a few centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 7, 1986 | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...around. "Maybe they were taking a coffee break," said one official wryly. The Soviets had one communication ship anchored at Surt and kept it lit up like a country carnival so that the U.S. fleet would know not to shoot it. But in the event of a more strenuous fight, the U.S. had made an explicit decision not to be deterred by the risks of Soviet casualties. Said a U.S. official: "This wasn't our intent, but if it happened, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing in Harm's Way | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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