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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they listened over their shortwave radios, with a battle raging sporadically around them, the British civilians stranded in Aden, the capital of South Yemen, could hardly believe their ears. A BBC announcer in London told them to assemble in "the northeast sector of the Soviet-embassy compound, repeat the Soviet-embassy compound, from which you will be taken to the beaches for evacuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Yemen Apocalypse Now In Aden | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...that may be a thing of the past. Both Dodson and Phillips attempted repeat performances Monday against the Blue Devils, but each was fouled and missed the shot...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Be-Deviled Hoopsters Hit The Road | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...that takes me back," she said. "I used to know everything about these things, but that was three husbands ago. You couldn't ask me anything now." After the crowd had had a chance to inspect the craft up close, the show cranked off in the afternoon, with a repeat performance the next day, a Sunday. There were aerobatics, fake dogfights, exploding oil drums out in the center of the field -- everything but a wing walker. The older the pilot, it seemed, the more kisses he blew the crowd upon touchdown. When the B-25s came over, Anderson told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

...have been hit by burglaries, suggesting an organized campaign of harassment. The break-ins have occurred at churches and the offices of sanctuary groups, as well as organizations providing legal guidance to Central American refugees in Seattle, Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Guadalupe, Ariz., and Cambridge, Mass. Some burglaries are repeat jobs. The Cambridge offices of the New Institute for Central America (NICA), which arranges for Americans to travel to Nicaragua, were ransacked recently for the fourth time. "We think that the Government is behind these acts," said Garrett D. Brown, NICA's associate director, though he had no solid proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees: Sanctuary's Unwanted Visitors | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

Currently, says Lozano-Perez, industrial robots are no more than sophisticated "tape recorders." They are programmed by experts who lead their mechanical arms through, the motions of a particular task. The robots store this sequence of movements in their memories and can later repeat it an unlimited number of times...

Author: By David Cook, | Title: MIT: Making Computers Smarter Than Humans | 12/7/1985 | See Source »

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