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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) commented just hours after President Bush insisted that "not one" senator had first-hand evidence that Tower had a drinking problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Senator Points to Tower's Drinking | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

Bush, in a session earlier yesterday with White House reporters, repeated his insistence that no senators had first-hand information that Tower was hampered by a drinking problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Senator Points to Tower's Drinking | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

After two seasons of struggling hand to mouth, South Africa Now seems likely to endure. Its producers have received badly needed funding in the form of a $100,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and $25,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. The show has also won a satellite slot that will make it available to the nation's 334 PBS stations by late spring. Far from fearing competition from the upstart broadcast, many network staffers are actively rooting for its success. That is one piece of good news about South Africa that everyone can share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Filling The South Africa Void | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...Iraqis out of its territory. Within days, he too chimed in with an attack on the West. "We know what our duty is regarding those who are a partner in cursing the Prophet," declared Rafsanjani. "The ground has been laid for a vast battle between Islam on the one hand, and paganism and arrogance on the other." But he tried to forestall stronger reprisals from Europe in case anything should happen to Rushdie. "If any Muslim carried out his duty," said Rafsanjani, "this cannot have any link with the Islamic Republic of Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism The New Satans | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...other hand, the whimsical Siamese retelling of Uncle Tom's Cabin from The King and I seems stately and slow. The Russian peasant life in Fiddler on the Roof looks even cornier and campier when deprived of the original's glints of fear and oppression. A protracted, wordless street scene among customers of a speakeasy is unlikely to bring back Billion Dollar Baby. And a danced duet from High Button Shoes, cast with vigorous young performers, defeats the whole sentimental purpose of the original number: to demonstrate that a married couple well along into middle age can not only remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The View from the '80s | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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