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...Peabody official, who asked not to be named, said that after learning that New York government officials were using their resources to squeich the Perot-Indian Museum deal, the Peabody decided to approach Perot with its own loan program "lest that 70 million go to waste...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Peabody Asks Texan To Rent its Artifacts | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

...weeks ago and hid them somewhere in the chaos of the western sector of the city. The triumphant captors brought five of their victims before TV cameras for a news conference, in which the prisoners pleaded that the U.S. not try to rescue them or take any military reprisal lest all the hostages die. At week's end the Shi'ite Party of God staged a rally around the captured jet; 1,000 demonstrators cheered the hijackers and chanted "Death to America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Attack on Civilization | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...made almost civilized for TV. The effect was strangely serene, almost lulling, at least until Conwell warned in his calm drawl, "If negotiations fail, we will be returned back to the original hijackers. Let me say, based on experience, that is something that I would find most unappealing." Lest reporters miss the point, a shadowy figure stalked in the background, hoisting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime-Time Terrorism | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...lest we forget Oliver Barrett IV '64) Andrew Eliot, The Preppy With The Heart Of Gold...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Stranger Than Truth | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...intervention. Insisted on using Vietnam as an arena in which to demonstrate to friend and foe alike our readiness to resist communism anywhere and everywhere in the world. In addition, foreign servicemen, bureaucrats and lawmakers all backed this position not for its merits, which were few, our of concern lest they be branded soft on communism. Likewise, last week's issue wasn't about the MX but about resolve--and those key congressmen who voted in favor cared more about looking tough in this day of renascent machismo than about acting wisely...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: When Reason Fails | 4/6/1985 | See Source »

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