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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once over the border, the destitute refugees are met by members of a government task force and assigned to sprawling tent cities to begin the painful process of resettlement. With unemployment in Turkey over 15%, the hardest task is finding them jobs. Even after inducing firms to give the uprooted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees A Modern Balkan Exodus | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

The discovery of the scrolls -- 800 ancient Jewish manuscripts that had been hidden from the world for 19 centuries -- was unexpected and dazzling. The Hebrew and Aramaic documents, written mostly on leather, were found in eleven caves along the northwest rim of the Dead Sea. Because of popular fascination over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Secrets of The Dead Sea Scrolls | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

Says New York University's Lawrence Schiffman: "The material could be published in a very short time if the circle of scholars were enlarged." That is prevented by a system of control that dates from the early discoveries in what was then part of Jordan. After rapid publication of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Secrets of The Dead Sea Scrolls | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

Within a year, Strugnell and Israel's Elisha Qimron plan to publish one of the most important scrolls, known as the "MMT Letter." The oldest of the nonbiblical scrolls, dating from the mid-2nd century B.C., it spells out disagreements over Jewish law, showing the thinking of the Dead Sea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Secrets of The Dead Sea Scrolls | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

Such a profound alteration of the very foundations of the Soviet system would have been unthinkable even a year ago. But many Soviet citizens are thinking the unthinkable these days. During his years of exile and his reign over the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1924, Lenin formulated prescriptions for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Chipping Away at an Icon | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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