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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That withdrawal began last week, when 31 Soviet tanks were loaded onto flatbed cars in Hungary. Among those watching the pullout was Ilona Staller, a member of the Italian Parliament and a porno-movie star. Staller kept her clothes on when she posed with Soviet officers, and released a white dove of peace. Ominously, perhaps, the bird was crushed in the treads of a Soviet tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alliance A Nasty Spat Among Friends | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Little more than a month ago, they were just two chemists, toiling in virtual anonymity. But B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann came last week to Washington as heroes, visionaries and scientific superstars. With a mob of reporters following along, the thermodynamic duo marched onto Capitol Hill to tell Congress how their simple tabletop experiment had generated fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun. Displaying slides filled with complex equations, wielding electronic pointers and pulling a mockup of their apparatus from a plastic shopping bag, the bespectacled researchers mesmerized the members of the House Committee on Science, Space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fusion Illusion? | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Brown threatened in the bottom of the eighth, but Wambach threw out the potential tying run with a perfect throw to Co-Captain and catcher Nancy Prior. Prior collided with the Bear runner and remarkably held onto the ball. The game was effectively over. Harvard once again had pulled out a nail-biter...

Author: By Jon Unger, | Title: Title Hunt: Batswomen Split With Bears | 5/5/1989 | See Source »

...scrawled our three questions onto our pads--including his last entry, "Invirment"--and now we embarked on the search for people to interview. I thought we'd stop after the two adults in the house...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Going After the News | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

While the Crimson's defense sent Loyola in circles, the Crimson's offense raged onto the scene with four goals in the first five minutes of the game...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Laxwomen Crown Loyola, 12-6 | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

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