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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Family is important to Costner. Dan, 38, who received a Navy and Marine Corps medal for heroism in Viet Nam, is in charge of finances at Kevin's company, Tig Productions, named after their grandmother. To take the job, he left a corporate vice presidency. "You wouldn't do this unless it was your brother," Dan says evenly. "And you wouldn't do it unless your brother was Kevin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevin Costner: Pursuing The Dream | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Deputy Uri Vlasov, a 1960 Olympics gold-medal weight lifter, blistered the KGB as "that most secret and conspiratorial of all state institutions." Vlasov should know: in 1953 the Committee for State Security hauled off his father, a diplomat, and the man was never seen again. Make the KGB's budget public and give the Congress the right to appoint its head, urged Vlasov. Move the agency to modest offices in Moscow's suburbs. Turn its forbidding headquarters at Dzerzhinsky Square into a library. "The bloody history of the main building is too unforgettable," he said. "This is where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union A Volcano of Words and Wishes | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...Allison was rebuked by the nationalpress and members of the University's faculty forawarding a medal of "distinguished public service"to Attorney General Edwin Meese...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: An Architect of Expansion | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Dave Berkoff, gold medal around his neck, smiling on a television broadcast from Seoul. Travis Metz wet and shivering on the banks of Lake Quinsigamond after an Eastern Sprints...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Images of Celebration Hide Frustration | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...easy to be blinded by the glare of the gold medal. To remember St. Paul, Minn., and forget Cambridge, Mass...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Images of Celebration Hide Frustration | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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