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Displacing such people from impoverished, drug-ridden areas is only one example of crack's nefarious impact on a city where roughly two-thirds of the criminal cases and half of its murders are said to be linked to the potent, cocaine-based drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Narcotics: Cracking Down On Crack | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Complementing Murray on the potent Tiger front line is freshman forward Pearce Torme, who has scored nine goals and assisted on four others for 22 points this season...

Author: By Robert E. M. grady, | Title: Clemson, UNC Meet Again | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

...most potent weapon in the Crimson arsenal will be the epee weapon. The epee weapon, which went 8-1 in each meet, is bolstered not only by the return of O'Neill, but also juniors Adam Weintraub and John Mayer...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: De-fence-less | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...years since they received life sentences for sabotage, the eight men became potent symbols of black resistance to white minority rule. They were all senior members of the African National Congress, the outlawed antiapartheid organization. The only white among them was granted clemency in 1985 after agreeing to renounce violence. The rest refused to accept that condition. Last week Govan Mbeki, 77, became the first black in the group to be freed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Freedom For a Holdout | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...East on the tarmac at Peking, a heroic opera for an unheroic age. Although historical operas are not unusual (Verdi's Don Carlos, for example), it is rare for a new work to treat personages of such recent vintage. The topic is resonant, for the former President still arouses potent emotions in those whose political consciousness was forged by Viet Nam, Kent State and Watergate. But the Minnesota-born Goodman was only ten years old when Nixon was elected and 16 when he resigned; now living in England, she brings a welcome apolitical detachment to her first major work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stagecraft As Soulcraft | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

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