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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East -- down would come the barbed wire along the old Iron Curtain, off would go the light in the red star over the parliament building, home would go trainloads of Soviet troops, in would come a non-Communist prime minister -- and the response from Washington was the sound of one hand clapping. There were schoolmarmish homilies about the need to "test" Gorbachev's slogan of new political thinking and complaints about what he had not done for the West lately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: America Abroad: Reciprocity at Last | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...Soviet maker of military planes, and Gulfstream, the most prestigious name in U.S. corporate jets, are making tentative plans to build a supersonic business aircraft. In a $1 billion project, the two manufacturers hope to produce a jet that will fly at 1,500 m.p.h., twice the speed of sound, and carry as many as 20 passengers over a range of more than 5,600 miles. The plane would sell for about $50 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AEROSPACE: Soviet Wings, Capitalist Tool | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...children sound the alarm. "Soldiers!" cries a 13-year-old girl, peeking out the window of the dank second-story apartment. As she hides a framed picture of a "martyred" relative, wrapped in the outlawed Palestinian flag, three young men dash out the back door and flee down the narrow alleyway. When the Israeli soldiers hurl a stone through the open window, two middle-aged women cower on the bed, rocking back and forth in terror. "God help us," pleads Umm Hamada, 45, desperately rubbing her hands together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cat And Mouse in the Casbah | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...hauled him off for interrogation. Seventeen other Palestinians were also arrested. "There is no escape from this nightmare," says Jamal, recalling his own time behind bars. "One night I even dreamed the soldiers had come and taken me away to prison." He awoke to the sound of soldiers bursting through the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cat And Mouse in the Casbah | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...Because they sound good," he replied...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: When Choice Isn't Anything | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

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