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Dates: during 1980-1989
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District police officers said yesterday they were under orders not to allow the protesters to carry pennants within sight of the television cameras on the Capitol lawn...
...memories are short." Meanwhile, 60,000 Vietnamese refugees are still waiting in temporary Southeast Asian camps. The rate of escape from Viet Nam has risen from an average of 3,000 a month at the end of 1979 to an average 6,500 last year, with no end in sight to the number of those ready to set sail for freedom...
...that was before Lady Diana Spencer came along and captured the tabloid's headlines-and reportedly Prince Charles' heart. In a vain attempt to catch sight of the elusive lovers, a bevy of reporters and paparazzi besieged the rusticating royals at the private 20,000-acre estate 100 miles north of London, "hanging about the stables, photographing anything that moves," according to the Queen's press secretary. At one point, the reporters threatened to upset a Shetland pony carrying the Queen's three-year-old grandson Peter. These breaches of protocol produced some rare cracks...
...control in this crowded city. A large billboard located strategically downtown exhorts residents in the name of patriotism to "have only one child." The official guides explain the problem thus: "We have made mistakes in the past." A family with more than two small children is now an unusual sight...
...hive of the queen bee, where Nevelson presides over a small force of workers: carpentry and joinery assistants who help with the sculpture, and her archivist, friend, photographer and general factotum Diana MacKown. Nevelson still leaves it often enough to be a near legendary sight in Manhattan's galleries and shops, and an enduring staple in the pages of Women's Wear Daily. She likes to swathe herself in costume and go to parties; she dislikes cooking for herself and frequents small local restaurants in Little Italy and SoHo, where she is treated with the deference one would...