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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people knew about, though no one owned a clock but he. When the emperor died, the imperial clock was allowed to fall apart, and everyone forgot that such a device had ever existed. Five hundred years later, Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest, arrived in Asia bearing a new Italian invention called a clock. The Chinese marveled at the thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Really Mattered? Not just great events, but underlying causes | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...last night out, the Italian Liner Andrea Doria sliced through a gentle ocean, and an awesome wall of North Atlantic fog closed in around her. But the ship's mood as she neared the U.S. was fog-free and gay. In the plush, boat deck Belvedere lounge, dancers swayed to the rhythms of an eight-piece orchestra. Their last song: Arrivederci, Roma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs 1956: Rosa Parks, Wreck of the Andrea Doria | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Italians, 2,100 strong and posted in Beirut's southern suburbs, protect the scenes of last year's massacre and also the Bourj-el-Barajneh refugee camp. Highly motorized, like the French, they maintain regular patrols, and also provide more assistance to civilians in their area than do the other contingents. Two Italian mobile clinics make daily tours of the refugee camps, ministering to the health needs of the Palestinians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace Keepers with a Difference | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...role of the French, Italian and British forces in Lebanon is becoming a political issue back home, just as it is in the U.S. The Italian coalition of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is uneasily united in its commitment to the MNF, but the country's large Communist Party has begun a major campaign to bring the troops home. In France, the conservative opposition demanded a hit-back-or-get-out policy before Socialist President François Mitterrand last week ordered retaliation against attacks on the French troops. In Britain, the opposition Labor Party is grumbling that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace Keepers with a Difference | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...command U.S. forces there, even though he had never seen combat. Photogenic, affable and straight-talking, he turned out to be a press agent's dream-but a disaster as a strategist. Ike was too deferential to the British in North Africa and overly cautious in the Italian campaign; he became bogged down in squabbling with General Charles de Gaulle and Admiral Jean Darlan over France's fate. But he learned fast, and by December 1943, when he took command of all Allied forces for the Normandy landing, Ike was sure and decisive. But he was not always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sublime Commander | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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