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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DAILY PAPERS afford little reminder that South Africa is a continuing moral issue. For Namibia or East Timor or any of the more questionable applications of U.S. foreign policy, the awareness of apartheid flickers and fades on the horizon of issues that concern the U.S. citizen. Grenada invasions, dying Marines in Lebanon and suspended nuclear proliferation negotiations are visible and significant issues that easily come to the forefront, while the so-called South Africa question is all but gone...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Remembering South Africa | 12/14/1983 | See Source »

NEWS COVERAGE of President Reagan's recent trip to South Korea showed the Chief Executive standing resolutely in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), gazing at the bleak North Korean horizon. Two major topics must have been discussed with South Korean officials during the trip--the Korean Air Lines 007 massacre and the recent murder, almost certainly by North Korean agents, of several high-ranking South Korean ministers and aides in Burms. And of course the overall themes must have been defense and trade. Why these topics have become increasingly important to America, and why the Korean dilemma cannot be solved with...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: A House Divided | 12/3/1983 | See Source »

Time is running out for the largest company on earth. Ending too is a long era of inexpensive phone service that Americans have taken for granted. But just on the horizon, heralding its arrival with the attention-getting power of a jillion jangling telephones, is a revolution in telecommunications. Propelled by both marketing and technology, the coming changes will rank second in importance only to the establishment of the U.S. telephone system itself, acknowledged as the world's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click! Ma Is Ringing Off | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...become a romp. When the votes were tallied, Alfonsin, 56, and his center-left Radical Civic Union party had outpolled Luder and the Peronists, 52% to 40%. Of the 15.2 million votes cast, the Radicals won 7.7 million, the Peronists 6 million. Though the new President faces a horizon of uncertainty, the results marked a fresh chapter in Argentine history. For the first time since it was founded by Juan Domingo Perón 37 years ago, the Peronist party has lost a free national election. Alfonsin succeeded in doing what no other politician or general has done: badly denting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Voting No! to the Past | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...seek money for home fallout shelters. He seemed to gain personal strength as he talked of power and how to exercise it. Before he hobbled off to his bedroom on crutches, which he used when he removed his back brace, he was resolutely beckoning his nation from some far horizon to fall in behind him and hold the frontier of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: He Asked Me to Listen to the Debate | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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