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...gong used to go off every five minutes, and that was the cue for the kids to break out." Some youngsters still carry knives and guns as casually as pocket combs. One parent assaulted her, and she notes, "I've had kids say to me, 'I'm going to punch you,' or they call me 'that bald-headed bitch' because of my short hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting Tough | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...Evening News, meanwhile, is enjoying its ratings windfall. Last summer TV's former No. 1 newscast fell to an ignominious third place. Then the A.C. Nielsen Co. converted to its new people-meter system (in which participants punch buttons rather than fill out diaries to record their viewing), and the program jumped back up to No. 1. Rather, who on the air showed the stress of troubled times, appears reinvigorated and relaxed, and the show has an attractive new set and swelling theme music. In an effort to give the newscast a further boost, correspondents from 60 Minutes will start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Back on The March at CBS News | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...South America (a shelter, he believed, from an imminent nuclear holocaust), the man who regarded himself as a reincarnation of Lenin settled in Northern California and opened some convalescent homes. Then, one humid day in the jungles of Guyana, he ordered his followers to drink a Kool-Aid-like punch soured with cyanide. By the time the world arrived at Jonestown, 911 people were dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Weirdos and Eccentrics | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Under fire for his role in Iranscam, the Vice President proves he is a candidate of rough- and- tumble as well as resume. -- It' s "Fat Boy" vs. "The Dirty Digger" as Ted Kennedy lands a sneak punch on Rupert Murdoch. -- An FBI agent describes five years undercover in the Mafia. -- Why is Al Haig running for President? To prove, in part, "I' m not the ogre people thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page January 18, 1988 Vol. 131 No. 3 | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...Gray Lobby packs political punch. -- A New York City jury seeks balance in a race case. -- Bruce Babbitt can' t afford timid ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page January 4, 1988 | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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