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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Specifically, the decision means that the tainted tests may not be introduced to show that a bloodstain found on Castro's watch came from the victim, though other acceptable DNA tests by Lifecodes may be used to show that the blood does not belong to Castro. Beyond this immediate case, the ruling is expected to embolden many of the hundreds of defendants fingered by DNA tests around the country to challenge the procedures used to identify them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: DNA On Trial: Mixed results for genetic tests | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...rubber- soled shoes, because the chance of being killed by toxic gases is about the same as being killed by lightning." Bush is proud of these bouts and prefers them to the staged-managed sessions held for Reagan. "I've been to Cabinet meetings when ((they have)) been a show-and-tell," Bush said. "We don't do ours that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush: Mr. Consensus | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...told TIME in an unprompted aside. "That's not why I proposed a constitutional amendment. And now I'm reading that people aren't interested in that ((issue)) anymore. Well, my ((internal)) clock tells me that's wrong, and I don't need ((Republican pollster)) Bob Teeter to show me a poll to make me convinced it's wrong." Although Bush insists that he does not steer his policies by the polls, he loves to use survey data to silence skeptics. After he permanently banned imported assault weapons, for example, he privately brandished poll results showing support for his position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush: Mr. Consensus | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

Each month American Rifleman, the journal of the National Rifle Association, features about a dozen such accounts of armed citizens defending themselves against criminals. Based on newspaper clippings submitted by N.R.A. members, the stories dramatically show how a gun can sometimes prevent a crime and perhaps even save a victim's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Guns Save Lives? | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...terrorists holding the hostages stated their position the way they often do. In the southern Lebanese town of Qleia, houses shook from the blast of a bomb attack on an Israeli convoy that wounded five soldiers and one militiaman from the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army. "We'll show them that we are hard food to chew," proclaimed Hizballah's military chief in Beirut. Other terrorists sought revenge for the humiliation of Obeid's kidnaping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bazaar Is Open | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

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