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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Larry Chartienitz, a 34-year-old exMarine, spoke for his organization, Veterans Against Foreign Wars: "I would fight to really defend this country, but no one should willingly sign up to fight for nothing for some politician and have poison put in your body...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Activists Face Tough Registration Battle | 1/9/1981 | See Source »

...Every politician, of course, is shaped by the distinctive nature of a personal past, but few acknowledge the debt so readily as Ronald Reagan. TIME invited the President-elect to pinpoint the year that was most important in forming his views, and after some mulling, he settled on 1932. That was the year he turned 21 and went home to Dixon, III., a graduate of tiny Eureka College near Peoria. Then, after a summer of lifeguarding at Lowell Park near Dixon, he found, at radio station WOC in Davenport, Iowa, 60 miles away, a chance to get into sports announcing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up and Away in a Down Year | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Walesa insists that he is simply a "union man" and not a politician. Yet the labor upheaval that toppled Party Boss Edward Gierek also made Solidarity's leader one of Poland's three most powerful people. The other two-new Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, spiritual leader of Poland's 32 million Catholics-now confer with this diminutive union man almost as if he were a high state official. Walesa takes his dizzying rise to eminence in stride. Says he: "I am not concerned with fame in the least. I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaking the Foundations of Communism | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Alexei Kosygin, 76, pragmatic politician-engineer who, with Leonid Brezhnev, wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 and served as Premier until, in failing health, he quit his post last October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMAGES: GOODBYE | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Edwards, an oral surgeon by profession, is a backslapping, yarn-spinning politician of the old Southern school. He is married and has two grown children. He concedes that he is "not an expert on energy matters." But he maintains that the interest he took in energy while serving as Governor, when he created the South Carolina Energy Research Institute, qualifies him for the post in the Reagan Cabinet." He advocates stepped-up development of nuclear power as "the cheapest, the safest and the cleanest" source of energy available. He wants to abolish regulations that are "standing...

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

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