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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dwight H. Perkins, Burbank Professor of Political Economy, introduced Han as a Chinese diplomat who played "a central part in the normalization of relations between China and the U.S."

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Taiwan Issue Understanding Urged | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

For the Reagan Administration, the dilemma was as much a matter of averting a political defeat as of sustaining its tattered policy of "constructive engagement." The White House was searching frantically last week for ways of winning enough Republican votes to sustain a presidential veto. One plan was to announce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Mixed Signals on Sanctions | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

While wags talk of elections turning into "pissing matches," drug testing has become a new campaign fad. In Kentucky, Republican Congressional Candidate Jim Polley challenged Incumbent Chris Perkins to meet him at a hospital for a urinating match. Perkins did not show up, but Polley gave his sample anyway. Perkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing the Bottle Lines | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

To sustain a veto, Reagan will need to pick up more than 20 votes in the Senate, where the sanctions bill passed by an overwhelming 84 to 14. The President hopes to win over some Senators by nominating Edward Perkins, a black career diplomat who is now U.S. envoy to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa into the Racial Maelstrom | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

This is music for a great rock musical that has never been written. It would be a show that assumes a certain level of sophistication and psychological voyaging on the part of the listener, as well as an abiding interest in the melancholy, ruminative personality of the composer himself. Simon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Simon: Tall Gumboots At Graceland | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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