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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long do you think the Federal Government and the banks can pull the wool over our eyes? The banks that lent money to Latin American countries knew there was a good chance those countries would default [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, July 2]. They also knew that the U.S. Government would help them out with our tax dollars. Citizens should tell our Government to stop bailing out the banks. Jan Theiss Guffey San Jose, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1984 | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...Moreover, U.S. Ambassador to Greece Monteagle Stearns, a personal friend of the Prime Minister's, had offered some sound advice: "Don't look at what Papandreou is saying but at what he is doing." For example, Papandreou has kept Greece in NATO, despite an earlier threat to pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: F-5 Furor | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...interest groups proliferated, they jostled each other at the federal trough. Blacks, women, the handicapped, the elderly, all demanded more of "their share." The established groups, particularly labor, tried to pull up the social ladder behind them, protecting high wages and benefits. The $12-an-hour white construction worker bitterly resented welfare "handouts" to unmarried black mothers. He feared affirmative-action quotas that threatened his job security. He worried about taxes, crime and mortgage rates. He believed that Government largesse was eroding America's self-reliance, American independence. These were middle-class concerns-Republican concerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Party in Search of Itself | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...Lebanon. There will not be a quick withdrawal from Lebanon. We are trying to create conditions that will enable us one day to pull out our forces: by strengthening the Lebanese Army, by reaching agreements with local groups of the population. The Likud does not want to stay in Lebanon. But for the moment, the Lebanese government does not have anything to offer. It does not even control Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Yitzhak Shamir | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...begin with. Thatcher has done little to sell her country on the positive side of Community membership, such as the grants and subsidies Britain has received for highway improvement, job-training programs and aid to depressed areas. The opposition Labor Party, in its 1983 general election manifesto, pledged to pull Britain out of the Community. Many Britons have made it a scape goat for the country's economic ills: a recent Gallup poll showed that only 33% of Britons consider membership "a good thing." Nevertheless, domestic politics had much to do with why Thatcher changed her stand. Her handling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: No Victors, No Vanquished | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

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