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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Joseph Papp, the nation's leading impresario of serious drama, decided to produce Cuba and His Teddy Bear at New York City's Public Theater, stage veterans gaped at the good fortune of Playwright Reinaldo Povod, 26. A product of Manhattan's turbulent Lower East Side, Povod had never before even written a full-length play. Envy turned to astonishment when Papp announced the show would star Oscar Winner Robert De Niro in his first stage effort since 1970's One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger. The seven-week off-Broadway run sold out in three hours. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: De Niro, Drugs and a Bold Debut Cuba and His Teddy Bear by Reinaldo Povod | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Nuclear questions may influence an election June 15 in the West German state of Lower Saxony. Social Democrat Gerhard Schroder, a candidate for minister-president, calls the vote a "people's referendum on nuclear power." Feelings on the issue are running high. Earlier this month, riot police battled demonstrators protesting the construction of a radioactive waste dump in the village of Gorleben...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy and Now, the Political Fallout | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...never have understood his own special place in the world of power. Few men in history have had such personal and professional trust from a President. If he had it to do again, Deaver would bend over backward to break cleanly with the White House. "I would keep a lower profile," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: I Would Keep a Lower Profile | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...exchange for taking away loopholes, the Senate committee's bill would reward businesses by lowering the top business-tax rate from 46% to 33%. Said Willard Butcher, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank: "What's different about this tax bill is the very significantly lower rate." For many businesses, that will go a long way toward offsetting the loss of preferences, and for some companies it will bring an overall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thumbs Up for the New Tax Plan | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...After repeated complaints by colleagues about his incompetence, Dr. Jacinto Lopez was stripped of his privileges at Artesia General Hospital in New Mexico. That hardly put an end to his operations. Three years later, in his own meagerly equipped and unsanitary office, Lopez undertook a lower-leg amputation with the help of an untrained assistant. Though the operation was reported, it took the state board of medical examiners six months to investigate and nearly three years to revoke Lopez's license. Meanwhile, Lopez took a standard route out of trouble: he packed his scalpel and moved to another state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Weeding Out the Incompetents | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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