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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...metronomic double time, back and forth, back and forth, inching toward the trout, which had broken water again just a few feet forward of the last rise. As Lempke cast, setting down the fly, an imitation of a green drake May fly, a couple of yards above the rise pattern, his words came drifting on the wind: "My wife never has to worry about me being out in a bar or chasing women, because I'm always out here chasing fish. But this green drake gets a lot of fellas in trouble. I've got laid off three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: The hatch of the Green Drake | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...Finger Lakes region of New York State on July 4 was to protest the storage of nuclear weapons at the nearby Seneca Army Depot. Calling themselves the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, the women, mostly white, well educated and feminist, sought to pattern their demonstration after the Women's Peace Camp protest at England's Greenham Common, a projected site for U.S. cruise missiles. There, several thousand women have assembled, on and off, since September 1981. But by last week the Seneca protest had mainly managed to provoke an angry clash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Clash | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...President Hissène Habré, bringing the total U.S. commitment to $25 million. The reason for the U.S. concern: Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi had dramatically stepped up his support for rebels trying to topple Habré. Said a senior State Department official: "There is a continent-wide pattern of Libyan destabilization, Libyan terrorist activities, Libyan aggression. We are in the middle of a small-scale, but very important conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: A Pattern of Destabilization | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...forthcoming compilation of examples of political harassment. There will be a rapid escalation of exposure of the Harvard Administration in the coming months. Only in this way--not by the old idealist arguments for free speech--will revolutionary and progressive groups be relieved of a pattern of political repression. Henry C. Park '84 RADACADS spokesperson

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Banner Stolen? | 8/9/1983 | See Source »

...shift in pattern was prompted by the death two weeks ago of ABC'S Washington-based anchor, Frank Reynolds. After he went on sick leave in April, ABC'S nightly news ratings dropped from second place to third, but the advantage went mostly to CBS. Those results convinced top officials at NBC that the pairing of the puckish Brokaw and dour Roger Mudd, 55, had little chance of catching on. A peripatetic workaholic, Brokaw has made mild fun of Mudd's reluctance to leave Washington in pursuit of story or spectacle. Though Brokaw continues to regard Mudd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Weighing Network Anchors | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

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