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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case, antismoking forces were also making progress in Washington. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a bill containing a provision that would prohibit travelers from lighting up on flights of two hours or less...
...lucrative business. The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality (1976) and The Hite Report on Male Sexuality (1981) together earned the coolly glamorous author $2.5 million. The new tome, Women and Love, a Cultural Revolution in Progress (Knopf; $24.95), is characteristically grandiose in scope, murky in methodology -- and right on target for commercial appeal. Having spent seven years analyzing a survey of the views of some 4,500 American women, Hite has concluded that they are fed up with the male of the species. "What is going on right now in the minds of women is a large...
Moscow has been quick to respond to the renewed interest. Soviet archives that have been nailed shut for decades are suddenly springing open. Jonathan Sanders, assistant director of the Harriman Institute, was recently supplied with hundreds of previously unpublished photos for a book in progress. A Berkeley graduate student, Stephen Kotkin, was permitted not only to visit the remote steelmaking city of Magnitogorsk last summer but also to write three separate columns on his observations for a local Soviet newspaper. In the most striking development of the new academic glasnost, Olin Robison, president of Middlebury, announced in September that...
...real stumbling block for any kind of progress in negotiation is finding a way to represent the Palestinians of the Occupied Territories. The only available evidence of the West Bankers' own preferences, a 14-month-old-poll, indicates 93 percent agreement with the statement: "The PLO is the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." Despite indictments of the study, conducted by the British, Australian and Palistinean press, it is troubling in light of the figures to have to justify the total exclusion of the PLO from the negotiating process...
Players who return while the strike is in progress "would be selling out and I don't think they could look at themselves in the mirror," Baty said. "It would be stupid for anybody to do that. It would ruin their relationship with the rest of the players...