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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation that seeks salvation by revealing such shame." In France, Interior Minister Gaston Defferre remarked, "This report is the honor of Israel. It gives the world a new lesson in democracy." The Italian Communist paper L'Unita called the report "a turning point for Israel," while Italian Journalist Arrigo Levi wrote in La Stampa of Turin: "It would be difficult to find any other nation at war that would let itself be subject to such an open and hard self-criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Verdict Is Guilty: An Israeli commission and the Beirut massacre | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...cost of the new houses and apartments is extremely low. Buyers at the West Bank development of Nofim are paying $90,000 for villas that could cost $250,000 in Israeli cities, but many of the houses and apartments being built are even cheaper than that. Mazal and Moshe Levi, who had been living with relatives, discovered that they could buy a three-bedroom apartment in a settlement near Jerusalem for a down payment of only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Israel's Great Land Rush | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...Levi's Plaza, Levi Strauss & Co., corporate headquarters, San Francisco, Calif. Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., architects. Located on the fringe of the city, this office complex frames a pleasant garden and proves that corporate prestige does not depend on scraping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Fashionable Is Not Enough | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...mind during the last Harvard-Dartmouth game in Hanover. I was sitting in the stands, and it was raining so hard that my raincoat--one of those leak-proof, rubberized specials--had soaked through. My newish jeans were plastered to my legs, which by this time must have been Levi blue from the dye that was forming a nice pool at my feet. Ah yes, my feet. My feet, shriveled to nothingness, were floating inside my socks, which were floating inside my sneakers, which had water streaming out of the eyelets, diluting the Levi blue pool. The man who said...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Love and Hate | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...perhaps the coolest description of the making of a hit single ever. Four Tops leader Levi Stubbs once described the genesis of "Baby I Need Your Loving" this way: "We'd sit around and talk and maybe sing a line at a time and try to get a feeling for the tune and send out and get a sandwich or a cold beer and wait an hour till the sandwich settled and then we'd take another shot at it. Lucky for us, we came up with a pretty good mood cut it and came up with a smash...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Can't Forget the Motor City | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

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