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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...room on the ground floor [which] had a big push up and down window," she says, and continues with a half-smile of amusement on her face...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Gordimer: Author, But Also Activist | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

P.R.I. officials were outraged last week not so much by Ruiz Massieu's message as by the grandstand manner in which he delivered it. His move has served to push the issue into the lap of the incoming President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, who will be inaugurated this week. Although a political cartoon last week depicted Zedillo nervously kicking away a ticking time bomb, it is almost certain that he will have to respond to the accusations against leaders of his party, many of whom were once expected to get top jobs when he took office. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Brother's Keeper | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...next day they were forced to wait six hours while another commander went back for the bullets he had forgotten to bring to target practice. One soldier eventually suffered what appeared to have been a heart attack; he died when he was beaten after being forced to do push-ups while wearing a gas mask. A second recruit succumbed when he was beaten so brutally by other soldiers that he suffered a brain hemorrhage. A third died of a bleeding ulcer after the doctor on base decided he was faking his pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Red-Army Blues | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...ready to go to North Carolina right now," an angry Clinton informed White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who brought him the news last Tuesday. The deep strike in enemy territory was quickly dismissed as impulsive. "We can't just react every time Jesse Helms decides to push his crazy buttons," said a senior official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's on Jesse's Mind? | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...need to panic, though. If the Crimson (1-1 overall, 0-0 Ivy) can merely manage to sink just a few more of those jumpers that have been clanging off the rim, today's game against St. Francis should push the squad over .500 once again...

Author: By Jason E. Kolman, | Title: M. Hoops Takes on St. Francis Tonight | 12/3/1994 | See Source »

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