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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people that anyone will survive a nuclear war? How can we as doctors influence people to prevent any further buildup of nuclear arms?" These are not the questions of an American pacifist but of Dr. Yevgeni Chazov, the Soviet Union's deputy minister of health and an official physician to President Leonid Brezhnev. Moreover, Chazov's view is at variance with some statements by Soviet officials implying that since fewer Soviet citizens are likely to die in an atomic holocaust than Americans, the U.S.S.R. would therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physicians' Plea: Ban the Bomb! | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...wonder Farrah Fawcett, 33, onetime star of television's Charlie's Angels, is returning to the medium that made her name. In Murder in Texas, a four-hour NBC miniseries, Farrah portrays Joan Robinson Hill, the Houston socialite for whose mysterious death in 1969 her physician husband was tried but not convicted. The role forced Fawcett to make a few changes: learning to ride English-style instead of Western and, more important, combing her famous windswept hair style into a sleek pony tail. "The crew saw that I am a much better actress than people have realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 12, 1981 | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...partnership at the prominent New York labor law firm of Battle, Fowler, Jaffin, Pierce & Kheel with a salary reported to be more than $100,000, vs. $69,630 at HUD. Says Pierce: "Frankly, I had to think about that." He discussed it with his wife Barbara Perm Wright, a physician with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and after a meeting with Reagan in California, finally decided to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three for the New Team | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...looked like a clear case of child abuse. The youngster had bruises on back and chest, apparently the result of a severe beating. Horrified observers reported the case to authorities, who prosecuted the bewildered Vietnamese refugee parents. But the trial ended soon enough when a physician testified that the child was only the "victim" of an old folk remedy: coin rubbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Folk Remedy | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Michael Halberstam, 48, hard-driving physician, author and editor whose multi-faceted career led from Public Health Service assignments at the northern tip of Alaska and on an Indian reservation in New Mexico to a successful cardiology practice in the nation's capital; of gunshot wounds received when he surprised a burglar in his home; in Washington, D.C. Son of a New York doctor and older brother of Pulitzer-prizewinning Journalist David Halberstam, he edited Modern Medicine magazine, contributed to many magazines and newspapers, wrote books on medical subjects and published a favorably reviewed 1978 novel, The Wanting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 22, 1980 | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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