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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your ears been able to screen out the ringing of the alarms, you could have heard a collective "ugggh" resound throughout the House. At 8:15, everyone came spilling out bleary-eyed, at 9:15, noticeably fewer Lowellians bothered to obey the command; and at 10:30, a mere handful of compulsive law-obeys left their beds. A sociological observation: unpublicized couples, sheepish upon making a rumpled co-appearance after the first fire alarm, almost never re-emerge at the next ringing...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Ground Zero at Lowell | 10/12/1982 | See Source »

...registered for the draft this year, it concerns me that Enton Eller used the name of God to advocate civil disobedience. He should read God's instruction in Romans 13:1 from The Living Bible: "Obey the government, for God is the one who has put it there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1982 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...warnings to foreign firms everywhere. Said he: "It's fairly safe to say that a signal is being sent out by the Administration to all persons who do business with the United States that there are rules, and that failure to comply with the rules and to obey American laws may result in prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Padded Prices | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...footage of P.L.O. Leader George Habash was chopped, CBS Tel Aviv Bureau Chief Charles Wolfson protested to the city's chief censor. Recalls Wolfson: "He told me: 'You have two choices. You either understand, or, if you don't understand, your second choice is to obey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Double Standard for Israel? | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

During his sermon at the Baptist church, Graham told a well-dressed congregation that the Bible calls on citizens "to obey the authorities," and that Jesus gave "man the power to be a better worker, a loyal citizen." One woman in the congregation disobeyed; she draped a banner over the balcony that read, "We have more than 150 prisoners for the work of the gospel." She was quietly escorted out of the church by several men in plain clothes and was presumably detained for questioning. Asked his opinion of the incident later, Graham replied: "We detain people in the United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Questionable Mission to Moscow | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

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