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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voters in Iowa and New Hampshire have certainly confirmed that. He has no staff, no money, no viable strategy. But, he's got one thing that's making it all wothwhile (no, not Donna)--Federal Matching Funds. He is receiving funds from the federal government that match his present campaign funds, so at least he'll be able to pay off his massive debts. What...

Author: By Brendan Barnicle, | Title: A Word to the Wise, Advice to the Ailing | 2/18/1988 | See Source »

...Band from northern Alberta, is protesting the Games to bring $ attention to a century-old unsettled land claim. "I support their claim," says Klein, who speaks a dialect of the Blackfoot language. "I oppose their methods." Local police and the Mounties are prepared for demonstrations -- and for the ever present threat of international terrorism. Although security experts privately believe the risk posed by terrorists is low, they are taking no chances. The Olympic Village has been surrounded by a double fence affixed with electronic detection devices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Preview: Calgary Stirs Up A Warm Welcome | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...indicts Panamanian Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega on a wide range of drug charges. -- Unrealistically low campaign- spending limits present candidates with some curious moral and logistical quandaries. -- It is no < longer this man' s Army, as the Pentagon moves to expand opportunities for servicewomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page February 15 | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...history bristling with tables, maps and charts, plus 83 pages of closely printed footnotes and a bibliography that cites nearly 1,400 sources. The book is The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, by Yale Professor of History Paul Kennedy. Its message, particularly for the U.S. at the present moment, is not encouraging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why All Empires Come to Dust THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...Conflict from 1500 to 2000" -- accurately describes the , bulk of the contents: a sweeping survey of the shifting balance of power over five centuries. The book could easily serve as an introductory history text for very bright undergraduates. But Kennedy is not content to end his story in the present. His final chapter, "To the 21st Century," ventures to predict which nations will prosper and decline in the near future. Astrologers do this sort of thing all the time; when a respected historian tries his hand, people pay attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why All Empires Come to Dust THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

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