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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pedro has put eet all together to make ze mos' excite vacation stop between La Canada and Key West! Ees leetle Mexico on 100 acres weeth 300 beeyooteefool rooms, shops, 3 sweem pools, par 3 golf, light-up tennis courts, gorjous landscape gardens, plus bran' new sombrero een zee sky tower weeth elevator to go opp een, see ever'teeng! Y'all comm, Amigo, Y'hear...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: 18 Hours South of the Border | 6/26/1981 | See Source »

...space during that period, while Soviet cosmonauts set one orbital endurance mark after another, finally reaching 185 days, more than twice the duration of America's longest Skylab mission. Most of this time was spent aboard a single Soviet spacecraft, a remarkable 20-ton mobile home in the sky called Salyut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Final Salute to Salyut 6 | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

Lessons learned from the Soviet mobile home in the sky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Final Salute to Salyut 6 | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...fact, a meeting that was called not so much to work out major agreements as to satisfy the needs of each of the celebrated participants. Under a blazing Sinai sun and a deep azure sky, Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat met last week for their tenth summit since Sadat made his ice-breaking visit to Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Pausing at the Summit | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...ministerial session of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries gathered in Geneva's Intercontinental Hotel last week for the group's spring conference on pricing and production strategies, the rifts dividing the world's oil producers were deeper than ever. Global demand for OPEC'S sky-high-priced product is now weakening in markets everywhere, and stockpiles are steadily swelling. The result is that oil prices in some places are actually declining. But despite the softening oil market, the 13 oil ministers last week were unable to agree upon the one tactic that petroleum-consuming countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: OPEC Deadlocks in Geneva | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

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