Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance and personalities--will the right leaders be in the right places if Reagan blunders into war, for instance. In the meantime, more people probably know more about danger spots like El Salvador in 1982 than they did in 1962, when few could even place Vietnam on the map...
...drowning under a tidal wave of sentiment of any sort on this Ivy League campus, folks. Generally, we're still the same set of over-achievers trying to map out productive lives and wondering how to mix into that some liberal politics without taking too much away from our private dreams. We're lucky, and most of us realize it. And a few are struggling with our consciences over how to fulfill our responsibility to do something that will benefit society at large...
...Republicans scrutinized the maps closely, they began yelling like devotees of primal-scream therapy. Burton had carved the state into a patchwork of jags and jigs, all designed to create as many Democratic districts as possible. The 27th District, traditionally a Republican stronghold, once hugged the coastline; now dubbed the "anteater's snout," it turns inland at Santa Monica and travels along a Democratic corridor just a few blocks wide into the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Burton also proved to be his brother's keeper: to preserve the seat of his sibling, Democratic Congressman John Burton...
...dumped into the same new district. "The rest of the state suffered because of first having to take care of those three districts artificially," complains G.O.P. Congressman Edward J. Derwinski, who was shifted into the district of a fellow Republican. In Missouri, a three-judge federal panel redrew the map to save the seat of Democrat William Clay, a black whose St. Louis district has lost 25% of its population since 1970. In preserving Clay's seat, the judges combined two southeast Missouri districts-and pitted two Republican incumbents against one another...
...unfortunate and regrettable that in a special advertising section in the Jan. 4 edition of TIME, a map of the eastern Mediterranean portrayed Cyprus as a dismembered country in orange and green, the very same colors used to identify Greece and Turkey. In view of the circumstances, the impression conveyed to the average reader by the advertisement is that the Republic of Cyprus does not have the status of an independent state but is divided between, and is part of each of its two neighbors. This is incompatible with the actual and universally accepted legal situation...