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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will join several other scholars at the WarCollege who at one time taught at Harvard. "Youguys turn out the best people in the field. Therewas a joke going around that the Soviets weregoing to put a plant in the War College because noone would pay attention to him since he didn'tcome from Harvard," Bernstein said...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Lee Takes War College's Offer; History Prof to Teach Officers | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...point of death he finds a few of his old tools lying on the floor and starts to make shoes again. To the old man's surprise and delight, his sons return home from the modern shoe plant they manage and join him at an activity both familiar and strange to them. The sons are engaged in a practice wrenched from its original circumstances, geography and social environment, yet it is one that allows them to be a family again; it is a practice that is somehow their own. They, like Walzer, have become communitarians who must find their home...

Author: By David Steiner, | Title: Far From Home | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--The U.S. government says the Soviet Union is engaging in a campaign intended to plant the idea that AIDS was created in a biological warfare experiment at Fort Detrick in Maryland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sovs: U.S. Created AIDS | 4/8/1987 | See Source »

Dukakis' stand against the New Hampshire based Seabrook nuclear power plant has also won him the support of many of the state's residents, political observers said...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: N.H. Poll Shows Duke In Lead | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

...Easter is too fickle for business," Robert Montgomery was saying one morning earlier this year on the floor of the venerable Philadelphia Flower Show. In years gone by, Montgomery explained, Easter struck the public as the proper time to plant, or at least to start thinking about it, and the nurseries went along. Easter proved a vexing starting gun for the nurserymen though -- people like Montgomery -- and it is easy to see why: one year Easter appears in March; another, it slips across the border into April. How, then, do you kick off a seasonal trade when the calendar plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Philadelphia: A Flower Show | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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