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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While opposition candidates claimed true victory and protested vigorously against General Noriega's brutal campaign, they have objected, just as vigorously, to the possiblity of an American military intervention, a possibility that George Bush has refused to rule...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Fraud and U.S. Foreign Policy | 5/12/1989 | See Source »

...have it removed from the airwaves? The TV critics who have seen it say that she has documented the life stories of the young Palestinians, growing up in borrowed land, growing up as non-citizens. It is apparently a violent and less-than-pretty portrait of Israeli rule. This is a story about Palestinian victims and Israeli violence against them...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Raging Against Censorship | 5/12/1989 | See Source »

...results but were reluctant to go public with the information, in part "for legal reasons." But Robert Huggins, a Stanford materials scientist, had no legal qualms. He reported excess heat from a cold-fusion device tucked into a red picnic cooler. Because he performed a control experiment to rule out a conventional chemical reaction, this was the strongest confirmation yet. The next day, Francesco Scaramuzzi, a bearded physicist with the Italian National Agency for Nuclear and Alternative Energy, reported what has been dubbed "Frascati fusion," for the town near Rome where his team detected the neutron signature of cold fusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Chronology of Nuclear Confusion | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...Justices must decide how widely to rule: to strike down the Missouri law or to support it as compatible with Roe; they could also restrict or, less likely, overturn Roe. Many observers expect a fragmented court until further appointments produce a firm majority on one side or the other. As with some affirmative-action cases, even Justices who agree in an abortion ruling might disagree about the legal basis for their conclusions. Although the Justices were expected to vote on the case in a closed-door session last week, their decision is not likely to be announced until late next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day of Reckoning on Roe | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Additionally, University officials say theyencourage some companies to stay in South Africaif they provide humanitarian services. Forinstance, although Harvard asked most of itscompanies with South African holdings to divest,Liebman says the University exempts drug companiesfrom this rule "on the grounds that they areneeded...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: University Tackles Divestment's Nuances | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

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