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...Popieluszko. Hope for the priest's safe return soon gave way to the suspicion that hard-line factions in the regime were trying to cover up the truth about the disappearance. The awful reality broke on Tuesday, when police frogmen found the priest's body in a reservoir on the Vistula River, 85 miles northwest of Warsaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: A Nation Mourns a Martyred Priest | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...turned out, supporters of each candidate could claim with some justification that their man had met their expectations in Kansas City. But for Mondale, meeting the expectations of his own camp simply was not enough. He needed to tap into Reagan's vast reservoir of trust and affection. With his nimbleness and good humor, Reagan had the dikes firmly plugged. Against the advice of some of his aides, he had taken up his opponent's challenge to debate and had survived the risks of going at it man to man in front of millions of Americans with no prepared text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tie Goes to the Gipper | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

Except the most important one By keeping the $2.5 million kitty for itself, Harvard is stabbing Stillman in the back. Stillman chose to donate the forest, a mountainous plot on the Hudson River which sports a reservoir and six ponds, to Harvard partially because he was fond of the University. But Stillman mostly chose Harvard because he thought he could trust the University to care for the land and provide the necessary stable environment for forestry and botany experiments. Now Harvard would pull out the money to keep the site in proper shape, and the consortium would have to already...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Question of Trustworthiness | 9/20/1984 | See Source »

They believe that they are fishing in a huge and untapped reservoir of potential Republicans, and that the G.O.P. can become the majority party by expanding its natural base to include ethnic and blue-collar Democrats who worry about high taxes and crime. Kemp, one of the few prominent Republicans to attend the National Urban League convention in July, said last week: "We cannot move our party ahead by leaving anyone on the sidelines. That requires reaching out to labor, reaching out to minorities, particularly blacks." Not coincidentally, the leading young Turks, New York's Kemp and Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Struggling for a Party's Soul | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Rousing Regattas On a Remote Reservoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A SPRAY OF OTHER EVENTS | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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