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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a hollowness to the cheers and the martial music. Weintraub follows an English schoolgirl running happily down a hallway, only to find a teacher weeping in her classroom. She had been widowed by the war. A bitter German slogan is brought back from the front: "Wir siegen uns zu Tode" (We'll conquer until we're all dead). And Gertrude Stein addresses a wounded French soldier: "Well, here is peace." The poilu replies, "At least for 20 years." As the world knows, his timing was tragically correct, almost to the hour, the day and the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Peace a Stillness Heard Round the World | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...White House official said that the Reagan campaign had excluded three reporters, on what appeared to be a political basis: William Greider of Rolling Stone, whose Atlantic Monthly interviews with Budget Director David Stockman raised questions about the integrity of the Reagan budget-planning process; Nashville Tennessean Editor John Siegen-thaler, who served in the Kennedy Administration; and Jerrold Schechter of Esquire, a former TIME correspondent who served in the Carter Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: In Search of Questioners | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

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