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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Executives at the Monsanto chemical company must have watched the stock-market opening last week with unusual trepidation. For good reason: after the market closed the previous Friday, a federal court jury in St. Paul awarded $8.75 million to a woman hurt by a Copper-7 intrauterine contraceptive device manufactured by G.D. Searle, a Monsanto subsidiary. The penalty raised a question: Could Monsanto go the way of A.H. Robins, which was forced into bankruptcy proceedings because of lawsuits generated by its Dalkon Shield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITIGATION: The Copper-7's Costly Legacy | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...Kenyan runner, Paul Ereng, looked around at his own team. Several countrymen more celebrated than he had not made the squad. "That's the greatest thing about the Games," he said. "They aren't for the most experienced, and they aren't for the least. Neither are they for the best known or the worst. They're for the first one home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics Special Section: Fantastic Flight of Fancy | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...sooner had cheering crowds welcomed Pope John Paul II to tiny Lesotho (pop. 1.6 million) last week than the cool night air erupted in explosions and flashes of light. But these were not fireworks welcoming the Pontiff. Blocks from the route the Pope's motorcade had taken through Maseru, the capital, South African commandos were storming a hijacked bus on which a band of antigovernment Lesotho guerrillas had been holding 71 Catholic pilgrims for 29 hours. When the gunfire ended, three of the four rebels lay dead. So did a 14-year-old girl, one of 31 children on board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Africa Hope, Blood And Defiance | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...tragedy came amid a week of turmoil -- and a few gestures of amity -- in strife-prone southern Africa, a region of guerrilla conflicts and racial hostilities. John Paul had arrived in Lesotho via a circuitous route. Bad weather forced his chartered Air Zimbabwe jet to veer from Maseru and land at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The unscheduled stop was a public relations windfall for South Africa, which had been pointedly excluded from the Pope's five-nation tour. While John Paul did not kiss the ground at the airport, as is his custom on first visiting a country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Africa Hope, Blood And Defiance | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

Offensive Line: State schools have a reputation for fielding some big players. UMass has its share of big men, including tackle Nick Salmon (6-ft., 2-in., 260-lbs.), and guards Paul Mayberry (6-ft., 2-in., 265-lbs.) and Bill Buttler (6-ft., 250-lbs.), who was named honorable mention All-America last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scouting Report | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

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