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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California's Silicon Valley, where not long ago a U.S.-made car was a rare find, the sun shimmers off the sleek bodies of hundreds of Ford Taurus sedans. The electronics company was so impressed with the style and solidness of the autos that it bought a fleet of 8,000 for staffers to drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Global Competition: Taking On The World | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...tanker, the 81,283-ton Sea Isle City, is part of the Kuwaiti fleet reflagged by the United States in July to protect it from attack. Iran claims Kuwait aids Iraq, Iran's enemy in the seven-year Persian Gulf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missile Hits US-Flagged Kuwaiti Tanker | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

Increasingly, once reluctant allies are applauding and even joining in the American determination to keep the gulf's international waters open. Since mid-August the U.S. fleet of 40 ships in the region has been joined by British, French, Belgian, Dutch and Italian warships and minesweepers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught In The Act | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...were the efforts of Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Contending that it is far better to prevent minelaying than to hunt for explosives after they are planted, Crowe overrode interservice rivalries and dispatched a specially equipped and trained Army unit to join the gulf fleet. Three weeks ago he visited Rear Admiral Harold Bernsen, commander of the Middle East Force on the command ship U.S.S. La Salle off Bahrain. The two officers worked on the plans to track and catch Iranian vessels capable of laying mines. Crowe gave Bernsen freedom to move swiftly once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught In The Act | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...Warra, warra!" With this half-angry, half-frightened shout to "go away," the Aborigines greeted the first fleet of British ships that ferried white convicts to colonize Australia in January 1788. The Europeans ignored the yells, and the Aborigines have suffered from negligence ever since. Now comprising only 1% of Australia's population of 16 million, the Aborigines have become a forgotten and impoverished minority, relegated to the squalid fringes of rural towns and shabby city suburbs of a continent that once was theirs alone. "We are a captive people," says Paul Coe, an Aboriginal leader. "We are a managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Two Hundred Years Later . . . | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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