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...seen even in three decades of nearly continuous warfare. Up and down the narrow length of South Viet Nam, more than 36,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers joined in a widespread, general offensive against airfields and military bases, government buildings, population centers and just plain civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WORLD 1969: The War The General's Gamble | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

From dusty Nanking streets, sleek limousines converged on a plain brick residence in the spacious Ministry of National Defense compound. It was Friday afternoon; by 2 o'clock Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's small drawing room was jammed with ranking Kuomintang officials. Tense and silent, they waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1949: China: What Can Li Do? Chiang Kaishek Steps Down | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...same page pointed out, blaming the murder of 269 innocent individuals on such an amorphous "criminal" as the Cold War is ludicrous. No matter how you look at it as calmly as coolly as you please. Flight 007 was shot down by a Russian jet fighter. It's that plain and simple. Any other "explanation" fails to face the facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Facing Facts | 9/27/1983 | See Source »

...sides the old airport fence topped with barbed wire divides the encampment from the predominantly Shi'ite shantytown of Hay es Sullum, where bombed-out buildings sometimes shelter Muslim fighters armed with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. In the surrounding hills that rise 3,000 ft. from the plain, Druze and Christian militias clash, igniting the night skies with tracer rounds and exploding shells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Listening for That Whistle | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

These programs include the Program on the Profession, a study begun last year to investigate the nature and direction of the legal profession; a year-old series of teaching workshops; the expansion of clinical positions at the Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, an experimental section for first-year law students; and computer learning among others...

Author: By Charlest T. Kurzman, | Title: Law School to Publicize Job Options | 9/23/1983 | See Source »

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