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Dates: during 1980-1989
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One result is that the speech may be as notable for what it does not say as for what it does. At most, Reagan will announce only cosmetic steps to reduce the federal deficit, now estimated at roughly $185 billion for the 1985 fiscal year. He has ruled out pressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan Gets Ready | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

This past summer, I acknowledged my new home at Currier House by laying upon my doorpost for the first time in my life a small wooden case containing inscribed parchment--a mezuza. For religious Jews, this is a practice dictated by written law. For others, it is a symbolic act...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bigotry | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

The public and official Soviet answer to that question is a resounding no. Leonid Brezhnev declared several times that a nuclear war would be "unwinnable" and "madness." Just five months before his death in 1982, he sent a formal message to the United Nations declaring that the Kremlin "assumes an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debate over a Doctrine | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

The principal reason for Birendra's trip is to propose that the United States recognize Nepal as a "zone of peace" and pledge not to establish any military bases in the nation. More than 30 countries, including England, China, Israel, and Egypt, have endorsed the proposal.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Harvard Student to Return as King | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

In late March, Eagleburger went to Brussels for a meeting with foreign ministry officials from other NATO countries to discuss implementation of the 1979 decision. He was accompanied by the acting deputy director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Michael Pillsbury, a protege of right-wing Senators. Pillsbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Control: Arms Control: Behind Closed Doors | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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