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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harold Medina, they could be rounded up easily with a couple of skiffs propelled by small outboards. Sometimes they would even play in the mother ship's bow wave. Now, in areas where dolphins have been heavily fished, they are much more difficult to corral, forcing the fishermen to resort to more and higher-powered chase boats. Mexican fishermen call these recently sophisticated dolphins the "untouchables," because they disappear at the first sight of a fishing boat. The discerning mammals are apparently able to tell the difference between fishing vessels and other craft, because they still approach small sailboats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...There is no shame in discussing things with one's enemies." So said Morocco's King Hassan II three months ago. Last week he lived up to those words by meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. The talks in the Moroccan resort of Ifrane produced little except what one participant described as a promise to "remain in contact." But the fact that the meeting was held at all merits at least a mention in the tortured history of Israel's relations with the Arab world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East When Adversaries Meet | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN on the island of St. Nicholas and it's not the smell of oil-covered flesh frying in the tropical sun. It's not even the evil machinations of several fatcats planning on buying these unspoiled Caribbean beaches to build their dream highrise resort. What's rotten here is the acting, script and theme all mixed up in a noxious concoction of a movie...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Paradise Lost | 7/22/1986 | See Source »

...heads are affected by the solar rays and want to watch a fantasy of surf, sex and sun but as a B-Movie fantasy this film doesn't even work. Instead what we get is a slightly moralizing, very patronizing and almost racist story about life among the island resort...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Paradise Lost | 7/22/1986 | See Source »

Well, thank God that our hero fireman decided to retire to Nicholas, because without him Ernest probably wouldn't have been able to fight off the bad guys. They rebuild the bar and turn it into a resort called Club Paradise, where wacky things happen to our cast of journeyman comedians and comediennes. This includes almost the entire cast of the recently pathetically unfunny Saturday Night Live...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Paradise Lost | 7/22/1986 | See Source »

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