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Not long after the turmoil over collectivization died down in the mid-1930s, the Soviet Union was hit by the second trauma of Gorbachev's boyhood: the Nazi invasion. Mikhail was eleven years old when German tanks rumbled into nearby Stavropol at the start of what became the Stalingrad campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

Aftershocks from October's stock crash rumbled through Wall Street last week as several shaken brokerage houses took steps to bolster their financial health. First, Paine Webber agreed to sell up to 25% of its stock to Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance of Japan for $300 million. The brokerage, which lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROKERAGES: Rescue Parties On Wall Street | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

Through the parched Eritrean highlands in northern Ethiopia, 25 trucks rumbled along a rough, winding road. Their cargo: 674 metric tons of food, enough to feed 30,000 people for a month, destined for drought victims in the provinces of Eritrea and Tigre.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: Let Them Eat Bullets | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

The quake measured 6.1 on the Richter scale, a small shock compared with the 8.1 horror that hit Mexico City in 1985 and the 1906 San Francisco catastrophe that carried a Richter punch later estimated at 8.3. Still, last week's temblor was the most potent in Southern California since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ten-Second Wake-Up Call | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Seven young men, all in their late teens or early 20s, slipped into a deserted dead-end street in eastern Tehran. From a neighborhood mosque, a loudspeaker rumbled with denunciations of America. While two of the youths acted as lookouts, a third placed a boxlike device at the base of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living With War And Revolution | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

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