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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First came the motorcycle outriders, then jeeps, trucks and buses crammed with grim, steel-helmeted East German troops. Rattling in their wake were the tanks--squat Russian-built T-34s and T-54s. At each major intersection, a platoon peeled off and ground to a halt, guns at the ready. The rest headed on for the sector border, the 25-mile frontier that cuts through the heart of Berlin like a jagged piece of glass. As the troops arrived at scores of border points, cargo trucks were already unloading rolls of barbed wire, concrete posts, wooden horses, stone blocks, picks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1960-1973 Revolution | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...stories that are eerily reminiscent of Nixon's ultimately fruitless Supreme Court battle to keep the tapes private. On Ken Starr's side, fighting the privilege -- which may soon be extended to a slew of other White House confidants -- could bring the rest of his investigation to a screeching halt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive Stonewall | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

...November and December, three college grapplers had their careers brought to an abrupt halt while participating in a practice that is quite commonplace in American wrestling: cutting weight...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Wrestling Reaches a Crossroad | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...unprecedented sweep of all five major Sunday talk shows. You would have been hard-pressed to find anyone saying such things a week ago. Now, however, with the President?s approval rating hitting a new high of 68 percent, and 58 percent of those polled wanting Ken Starr to halt his investigation of Lewinsky, two words are being whispered across America: It?s over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Over? | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...drip of new details in the Clinton sex scandal slowed to a virtual halt Saturday as all sides in the case retreated under the cover of subpoenas to discuss their next move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lewinsky, Starr, and the Immunity Dance | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

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