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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But the caution of the Old Guard is giving way to the impatience of younger Estonians. They are gambling that the economic crisis of the U.S.S.R. is so severe and so all absorbing for the Kremlin -- and that preserving the goodwill of the outside world is so crucial -- that not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Washington's Captive Policy | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Virginia has always been in the forefront of racial change. It was at Jamestown in 1619 that the first shipload of captive Africans later destined for slavery disembarked. It was at Appomattox in 1865 that the Confederacy surrendered. It was in Virginia in the 1950s that men who fancied themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakthrough In Virginia Dougas Wilder | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Consumers who like to drown their morning cornflakes may soon be merely moistening them. Because of a decline in U.S. dairy production, milk prices are jumping over the moon. After churning out a record 146 billion lbs. of milk in 1988, suppliers are producing about 2% less this year. Reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAIRY PRODUCTS: The Herd's Going Dry | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Some things are just too low tech to last. What could be more old-fashioned than wrestling a postage stamp out of its perforations, coating one's tongue with glue and watching the stamp come unstuck along the edges? Sure enough, that ritual is now headed the way of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTAGE STAMPS: Getting Your Last Licks | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Little more than a week before the latest title shuffle, Deng and other officials met with one of modern China's closest American friends, Richard Nixon. During the visit, the former President told his hosts that "many in the U.S. believe the crackdown was excessive and unjustified . . . and damaged the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Advice from a Former President | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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