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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter has settled on a more aggressive strategy. The President's aides will keep reminding voters this summer about the Californian's more outrageous statements, like his proposal that the U.S. blockade Cuba in retaliation against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Then, come fall, Carter himself will pound away at Reagan as a dangerous extremist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: White House Face-Off | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

...world's most honored criminologists, Sheldon Glueck, Pound Professor of Law Emeritus, died in mid-March. Glueck spent his entire 38-year teaching career at Harvard until his retirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Passing... | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...Thompson traces Laszlo's progress from crusading counselor to wild-eyed revolutionary. Through Laszlo, Linson and Kaye make their feeble attempt at social commentary. He rages and sputters at the judge who sentences his teenage defendant Billy (Jon Matthews '83) to five years in prison for possession of a pound of marijuana. This first courtroom scene sets the tone of Laszlo's character for the rest of the film. He's passionate and irrational, but that...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Fear and Loathing | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

Specifically, many complained of severe rationing and the lack of jobs. "I have had my ration card for ten years, and always the amount has been the same," said Lazara Basart, who left with her husband, a government driver, and her two children. "Three-quarters of a pound of meat per person every nine days. Five pounds of rice per month. Many times we went hungry." Marveled another at the refugee center: "There are more pages of want ads in newspapers here in Miami than there are pages in all of Granma [Havana's Communist Party paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Flotilla Grows | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...mound impressed to any degree, but the pitching hasn't been a problem. What made the Crimson's chances look so good was watching the same hot-and-cold hitters who had struggled to a combined .245 batting average entering the contest hit their peak all at once and pound out 18 hits in their highest output of the seven...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Santos-Buch Injured as Crimson Cops GBL Title | 5/7/1980 | See Source »

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