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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promises to be a classic struggle. On one side: environmentalists, guardians of the 18 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which sits on Alaska's North Slope near the Canadian border. An untouched domain of musk oxen, polar bears, golden eagles, wolves and a cherished herd of 180,000 caribou, the preserve is one of the nation's last pristine animal ranges. The opposition: developers who seek the vast energy riches believed to lie beneath the refuge's 1.5 million-acre coastal plain. These reserves may hold as much as 5 billion to 30 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Arctic Debate: To drill or not to drill? | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...hardly surprising last week that Reagan, facing the most serious crisis of his presidency, would turn to his longtime confidant, political protector and general cleanup man, Edwin Meese. "I think we're now getting back to the old Ed Meese," says Ed Salzman, publisher of the Golden State Report and a veteran Meese watcher, "the guy who kept Reagan out of trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of Mr. Fix-It | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...Francisco in 1979), they do just fine. Dr. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) brazens his way through a little miracle surgery; Chekov (Walter Koenig), the Russian, has to explain his way out of an American nuclear submarine; Scotty (James Doohan) brings postmodern plastics to Marin County. And Spock, wandering around Golden Gate Park in a Vulcan bathrobe and proving his ineptness with the local slang, must be passed off as a casualty of the '60s free-speech movement. "He did a little too much LDS," Kirk explains helpfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sea Shepherd From Outer Space | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...sensory perceptions? How many users know the difference between a regular grand jury and a grand jury? And how many of us know enough about German literature to use sturm und drang correctly? Or about the Peloponnesian War which inspired some historian to coin Pyrrhic victory, to make a golden apple of this idiom, rather than dilute its meaning every time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...have troubles. Swept out of his family bosom and overboard from the ship carrying them to the New World by an Atlantic storm, Fievel bobs into New York harbor in a bottle. Quickly he discovers that American streets are not paved with cheese and that whoever said the golden land was free of cats was, well, exaggerating. Not to worry, though. Fievel (whose voice is supplied by eight-year-old Actor Phillip Glasser) is fully as brave and resourceful as any homogenized Disney rodent. And he is capable of exposing his most vulnerable feelings as few animated critters ever have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mousel Tov! an American Tail | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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