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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leave Beirut alone. The side you support will inevitably lose. The deaths of your Marines and your American University president, Malcolm Kerr, should be convincing proof of the growing hatred Muslims feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...being fed, the latest ones first, into the Patent Office's new computers. So the inventors whose patents go back a few years, and these were the ones with Examiner Curtin, were not yet in the system. It seemed to hurt them not to get authentic Government computer proof of their achievements. "If I gave you the name of the product, could you bring it up?" one man implored. "Try underwater drainage or coral cavity evacuation.' Alas, it did not show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: A Convention for Inventions | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...that the Soviets had cut down on chemical warfare because of U.S. pressure. Some scientists, however, doubt that the Soviets ever used toxic weapons in Southeast Asia. "Yellow rain," they say, was actually bee excrement. Now, these critics suggest, the U.S. is simply using a more stringent standard of proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faint Hints of an East-West Thaw | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

Barton added that a conviction of second-degree murder requires the jury to decide that Vaughn maliciously killed his wife Proof of malicious intent is not necessary for a manslaughter conviction...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain, | Title: Jury Takes Up Vaughn Murder Case | 2/16/1984 | See Source »

...evidence against the Prime Minister and Cabinet is circumstantial and difficult to prove. So far, the only documented charge is that Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Local Government George Smith accepted a $26,000 BMW sedan from a professed drug smuggler. But even in the absence of further proof, the commission's revelations have generated public resentment against Pindling's self-assured, 17-year rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bahamas: Pot Shots | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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