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Star Wars. Bush and several of his top advisers view with skepticism Reagan's expensive vision of a high-tech shield from enemy missiles. The 1990 budget agreement cuts funding for the program to $4.6 billion from Reagan's proposed $5.9 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bless Me, Father | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

After community leaders proved unable to cool the violence, school officials decided to bulletproof the school. Last week workmen began building a 10-ft.- high, 900-ft.-long concrete wall to shield Lindbergh from the housing project. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: The Great Wall Of Long Beach | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

During Thursday's march, tens of thousands of Beijing residents escorted the students on bicycles and on foot, and tried to shield them from soldiers and police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Students Plan to Continue Strike | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

...Mexican police pieced together a horrific tale of a voodoo-practicing cult of drug smugglers who believed that orgies of human sacrifice would win satanic protection for its 2,000-lb.-a-week marijuana-running operation to the U.S. "They felt that all the killing would draw a protective shield around them," observed Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox. "It was religious craziness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cult of The Red-Haired Devil | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Newspapers should not be in the business of restricting information. Readers need to be the ones to decide whether or not fly to Eastern; it would be patronizing for us, the editors, to attempt to shield you from the message this company chooses to disseminate...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Unfriendly Advertising | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

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