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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if we place our intelligence in the deepest portion of our brain, the Delta Force's antics don't make the grade. The Force's victories just aren't exciting, and their gruesomeness is unappealing. Even big Chuck Norris fails to live up to the fight scenes. In fact, unlike in his earlier films, he hardly ever uses his incredible physical strength or fighting ability in hand-to-hand combat. Instead, we see him use superior American weaponry and sheer bravado to defeat the enemy. (By the way, Norris is also presented as a master strategist and a speaker...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: My Military Valentine | 2/14/1986 | See Source »

Some 1.5 million students would be effectively knocked off student aid rolls by October as reductions in guaranteed loans and related student aid programs, a portion of total education funding, reach 25 percent in 1987. The cuts are expected to increase in succeeding years until...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: Budget Law Validity To Be Decided Today | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

Suspense comes with the underhanded, dastardly intrigues of Lord Guilford's father, the historically in famous Duke of Northumberland. The controlling force behind the during the latter portion of Edward VI's reign, it was Northumberland's lust for power that prompted him to arrange the marriage between his rather impish Beau-Brummel-of-a-son and the potential inheritress Jane, then fourth in line for the throne...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Legendary Love Story | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

Light comedy and idyllic romance give way to more substantial drama as the film moves on to chronicle the political machinations that resulted in Jane Grey Dudley's briefly becoming Queen of England. This is perhaps the least satisfying portion of the film, largely because we know that her abrupt rise to power will soon be followed by an equally abrupt decline from...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Legendary Love Story | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

...verge of falling last week. Only six months after a coup had toppled the corrupt and bloody regime of President Apollo Milton Obote, an estimated 3,000 rebels from a group that calls itself the National Resistance Army moved into the capital, Kampala, and quickly captured a major portion of the city. Some government troops retreated to the suburbs, but others stayed behind, fighting back with heavy mortar barrages. In the exchange of gunfire, both a hospital and a church were hit. At least 20 people were reported killed or wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda: Back to the Brink | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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