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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took the gold in 1984 with their creative Bolero routine, seemed to point the sport in a new direction. But this year's competitors cleaved to more traditional ballroom steps. The silver-winning Soviet pair of Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko were elegant, and Bronze Medalists Tracy Wilson and Robert McCall of Canada were charming -- but neither couple took the sport anywhere it had not gone before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skating: Katarina Witt took her golden place | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...platform. "I've been on the side of the average workingman and -woman," he drawled earnestly. "I've been on the side of the small farmers." Standing in front of a monument to Confederate heroes in South Carolina, Pat Robertson reminded his audiences that "I went to school where Robert E. Lee was president." In heavily Hispanic Corpus Christi and San Antonio, Michael Dukakis appeared in TV commercials, speaking fluent Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Away, Dixieland | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...mushroomed into importance." That was the all too typical explanation by Attorney General Edwin Meese of a memo he received suggesting a way to get Israel to guarantee the safety of a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline. Last week Meese's lawyers released the declassified 1985 memo from E. Robert Wallach, the Attorney General's former personal attorney. What his Swiss-cheese memory had failed to retain was alarming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mount Meese: It overlooks many things | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...calling it the "Watergate of evangelical Christianity." But even as Falwell abandoned politics a month later, Pat ; Robertson jumped in, leaving his Christian Broadcasting Network to get along without his strong presence. Left personally unscathed in all the turmoil were more churchly TV preachers such as Billy Graham and Robert Schuller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now It's Jimmy's Turn | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...witching-hour theatrics stemmed from the frustration of Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd over the Republicans' filibuster of his cherished campaign finance-reform bill. Last year Byrd failed in seven attempts to muster the 60 votes needed to shut off a debate and bring the measure to a vote. Last week he decided to take off the gloves, declaring, "There is no point in continuing the casual, gentlemanly good-guy filibuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Search And Seizure on Capitol Hill | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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