Word: hourlies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though some of his fellow soldiers say he single-handedly saved his battalion by killing 600 Japanese soldiers during a 21-hour siege on New Guinea in 1942, Sergeant David Rubitsky was never awarded the Medal of Honor. Jewish groups and veterans' organizations claim that anti-Semitism was the reason. Last week, after a two-year inquiry, an Army review board ruled that Rubitsky was not entitled to the medal. Lieut. Colonel Terrence Adkins, who led the inquiry, said Rubitsky's exploits "did not occur as alleged." An investigator described as "fraudulent" a photo with Japanese inscriptions declaring that...
They shot for 65 exhausting, twelve-hour days (on a slim budget of $17.8 million), and Cruise would not trade a day of it. "At the beginning I thought, 'Oh, man, I just don't want to blow this. Every day I am going to give it everything I have. In the Philippines, where we shot the Viet Nam stuff, I was thinking, 'I don't know how it's going to be, but all I know is, I have got absolutely nothing left.' I was burned out. Burned out. But when I think back to the happiest moments...
...last hour of fall-term classes at the University of Montreal's engineering school, the Ecole Polytechnique. Students faced eleven days of exams, but at least they could look forward to the cheering prospect of Christmas vacation afterward. That tidy calendar was suddenly and tragically shattered last week in a hail of semiautomatic rifle fire ignited by a bizarre sexual hatred. When the climactic hour ended, Canada had suffered the worst mass murder in its history...
...Estonia the Communist Party Central Committee approved a similar proposal that should easily pass the legislature next month. In Armenia angry crowds surrounded parliament after legislators rejected a multiparty system. This week Andrei Sakharov and other members of the Congress of People's Deputies are calling for a two-hour strike to force the Congress to debate the repeal or modification of Article 6 of the constitution, which enshrines the Communist Party's dominance in the national government...
Accordingly, TIME invited five experts on European political and economic affairs -- a Soviet, a Hungarian, a Frenchman, a West German and an American -- to try and give definition to what Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev calls "the common European house." During a six-hour meeting last week at an 18th century mansion in Brussels, the "capital" of the twelve-nation European Community, the group was asked to share insights on the future of Europe. The panel was not always in agreement but found consensus on some basic points...