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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under those conditions, the only decision that could be taken was to render the criminals harmless," Sovietskaya Rossiya said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Family of Soviet Musicians Hijacks Plane | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...become increasingly clear that efforts to end the unrest will probably be futile unless a negotiating process leading to some form of Palestinian self- rule is started. But the latest U.S. initiative aimed at achieving that goal is stirring political turmoil in Israel. That domestic struggle could render the Jewish state incapable of engaging in serious diplomacy at the very moment when compromise may be essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Land for Peace? | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...process, so that someone might have said, "Why are we printing this?" I know, also, that there is a school of student journalism which loves to see words like "boner" in print, because this is "brash," "bucking the establishment," and all the things that, done for their own sake, render an op-ed page rather pointless. There is a type of piece, moreover, presented under the theory that "if the reader isn't scandalized by this, we haven't done our job;" but such pieces are the essence of brat journalism, and as a reader of the Harvard Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Objection to `Where the Old People Bake Their Brains' | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

...yield." Ethiopia's food production now totals 6.8 million tons a year, with little prospect for future growth; Western experts say the country will require an estimated 2 million tons of imported food in 1990. It almost seems, says Morris with a sigh, that the Ethiopians are "determined to render themselves a perpetual beggar nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Famine Hunger stalks Ethiopia once again - and aid groups fear the worst | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...Susan Lazarchick, the decision to undergo an experimental knee transplant was frighteningly simple. A benign tumor the size of a grapefruit was rapidly consuming her right knee and shinbone. Doctors had offered her two other options: amputation, or a bone fusion, which would render her stiff-legged for the rest of her life. She chose the rarely performed transplant. Last week Orthopedic Surgeon Richard Schmidt at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia announced that he had transplanted an entire knee -- bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and all -- from an accident victim into the leg of the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gamble Against Uncertain Odds | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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