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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late '80s world. ("4/7/87--Sheik Ali Fayadh Mahim was arrested in Beverly Hills today for trying to pass a bad emerald at Gucci's.") China, racked by hard rock, LSD and "un-Confucian sexual attitudes" among its youth, places none other than Richard Nixon at the helm in order to crush "The Great Trip Forward" with "The Great Clamp Downward: And tension persists in that area of the world: "4/4/83--In pre-emptive strikes on Hanoi ammo dumps, the Chinese dropped an estimated 40,000 tons of people on Vietnamese bombs...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Great Expectations | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

...order to be successful," McLaughlin says, "we are gonna have to scrap." And scrappiness keeps coming up in the conversation. Translated, that means plenty of movement, tough presses and a fast break offense. And not many rebounds...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Cagers to Debut Tonight | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

With three cases already pending which challenge the legality of the order, the students' wait-and-see attitude seems both sensible and correct. While the courts consider the problem, Harvard's International Office should continue to advise Iranian students about the documents they may need to satisfy the order. The choice however, as University officials rightly point out, should be left to individual students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Need for Redocumenting | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

Walsh added that the short course allowed her to use Gildea, who specializes in the 1650-yd. freestyle, only twice, while a long course order of events makes Gildea available at least three times...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Terrier Aquawomen Sink Women's Swimming, 75-65 | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

...heal the awful internal strife that had divided our country; we note that the Spanish-American War marked the emergence of American power and leadership in the world (despite our misgivings about its imperialist implications); and we more keenly sense the brute horror but ultimate triumph of justice and order in the two world wars. Veterans Day conjures up all of these recollections about America's military heritage. Yet something is lacking and terribly wrong today...

Author: By Michael Korn, | Title: Vietnam on my Mind | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

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