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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though many Harvard Square passersby showed brief interest in U.S. Citizens Revolt, the demonstration itself was joined by only a few auxiliary protesters. The small group that clustered around Moynahan's make-shift table, said protester Courtney Miller, was "a loose group of crazy artist-types" participating in "the soap opera of social unrest...

Author: By Mary T. Teichert, | Title: Central America Pullout Urged | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

...just that the shift of winds in Eastern Europe is so incredibly rapid, but so disconcertingly nebulous. The changes in Poland and Hungary are not like an election campaign, which has a definite conclusion, or an earthquake, whose scale can be precisely measured. Where we will end up, few are willing to predict...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Discontent Over Democracy | 11/30/1989 | See Source »

When Wendy Giebler finishes her job as a video production manager in Haverstraw, N.Y., each day, she starts a second shift of a more passionate nature. At home she spends five hours writing letters, preparing testimony, drafting speeches and devouring all the information she can find on how and why Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, last December, killing 270 people. One of the victims was William Giebler, 29, a bond broker who had married Wendy less than a year earlier. "I have nothing else left to live for," says Giebler, who transformed her grief into action. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Lockerbie Alive | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...Drug Enforcement Administration and the State Department. The subpoena suggests that Israel or West Germany relayed serious warnings of a bombing to the U.S. -- and that the warnings were not passed on to Pan Am. The Flight 103 families say Pan Am may merely be trying to shift the blame so it can wriggle out of paying huge claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Lockerbie Alive | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...Bond was trying to shift more than $9 billion in debt. When payment on Sotheby's bridging loan of $27 million fell due, he could not meet it, and Sotheby's rolled it over for another year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Anatomy of a Deal | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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