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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home, Reagan is resorting to a tactic used by all Presidents: taking his case straight to the country. He launched the p.r. drive in a radio address two weeks ago. Reagan called the contras "our brothers" and compared them to such "freedom fighters" as Lafayette, Steuben and Kosciuszko, the French, German and Polish officers who fought with the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. Secretary of State George Shultz joined the offensive at a congressional hearing last week. He declared that the U.S. had a "moral duty" to rescue the people of Nicaragua, who had fallen "behind the Iron Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Say Uncle, Says Reagan | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Those TV actors, with their bland gesticulations and hammy facial expressions, could certainly take a lesson or two from Marcel Marceau, the French pantomimist, the most famous living mine, if not the greatest...

Author: By Jennifer A. Kingston, | Title: Miming His Own Business | 3/1/1985 | See Source »

...Atlantic and Pacific oceans; in the crash of a twin-engine Cessna 421 plane; in Albuquerque. With fellow New Mexico Businessmen Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, Real Estate Developer Abruzzo flew the helium-filled Double Eagle II on a six-day journey from a Maine meadow to a French wheatfield in 1978. Three years later, with Newman and two others, he took off in Double Eagle V from Nagashima, Japan, and crash-landed in Northern California after a four-day flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 25, 1985 | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Russia and a weird group of invading performers were not enough, obscure allusions begin clamoring for attention. One of the star acts in Colonel Kearney's circus is "Lamarck's Educated Apes." This Monsieur Lamarck is a wife beater and a drunk; he also bears the name of the French naturalist whose theory of evolution through the transmission of acquired learning was overturned by Darwinism. So the new Lamarck's chimps get smart enough to dump him and demand a new, better contract. Before the possible significance of this liberating but unscientific development can be absorbed, other diverting calamities ensue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Wings of a New Age Nights At the Circus | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...waiting in the long line to place their orders. On the right edge of the sign is a credible illustration of a hot pastrami sandwich, on the left edge is a color photo enlargement of proprietor Thomas Stefanian's head. In the picture he is bedecked in a while French chef's hat and neckerchief--garments only the photographer has ever seen him wear. His mouth is parted, exposing all 32 teeth, and he radiates a strong yet clusive emotion...

Author: By Theodore P. Friesd, | Title: The Allure of Cheesesteak and Abuse | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

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