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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nicest things about this week's project was that the artist turned in his work on time. "Byrne came across as a consummate professional graphic designer," says Holmes. We think readers will agree that the Renaissance man of rock and movies can add magazine covers to his growing list of accomplishments...
...winners of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor announced last week were an eclectic roll call of America's ethnic heritage; among the recipients were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Walter Cronkite and Muhammad Ali. But the list was even more varied than the award's sponsors realized. James Tamer, 74, a Michigan country-club owner honored as a Lebanese-American activist, turned out to be a convicted felon as well. Tamer served five years for a 1934 bank robbery. In 1979 federal prosecutors alleged he had operated a Las Vegas hotel casino as a front man for Vito Giacalone, a reputed...
...York City jail cell, where she was held for five days before being put on a plane and sent back to Bogota. Lara, 35, had been detained upon arrival at New York's Kennedy Airport by immigration officials who discovered that she was in their "lookout book," a list of some 40,000 people suspected of "subversive, Communist or terrorist activities...
More and more outside observers seem to agree that the organization has become too extensive to ignore. Long regarded in the West as Communist clients for their ties to the Soviet Union, A.N.C. leaders are being received by a lengthening list of Western officials. In September British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe met A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo near London. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker saw Tambo the same day. At their meeting Crocker told Tambo, "We are not talking with you because we like you but because we know you have influence in South Africa...
...economy. Then it called upon President Reagan to lift the economic sanctions against Poland that have been in place since 1981, when the U.S. slapped on the measures to protest suppression of the Solidarity trade-union movement. What made last week's appeal unusual was its ten signatories. The list of prominent Poles included three Solidarity advisers and Lech Walesa, a founder and former leader of the now outlawed movement...