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...moves have opened yawning rifts between the country's eight diverse republics and provinces and a flock of feuding ethnic groups. Serbian nationalists, led by the charismatic Slobodan Milossevic, are pursuing a dream of dominance in one part of the country, while a divided national leadership is struggling to stave off collapse of the Yugoslav economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Eastern Europe: Chips Off the Old Bloc | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...Raiders stave off a third-period Harvard comeback, and Craig Woodcroft earns his Eagle Scout badge as he tallies with only 21 seconds left in OT to give Colgate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Elis to the Engineers | 3/11/1989 | See Source »

...Raiders stave off a third-period Harvard comeback, and Craig Woodcroft earns his Eagle Scout badge as he tallies with only 21 seconds left in OT to give Colgate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Elis to the Engineers | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--The Senate confirmation battle over Defense Secretary-designate John Tower neared a climax yesterday as Majority Leader George Mitchell proclaimed the nomination doomed and Republican leader Bob Dole conceded it would "take a miracle" to stave off defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bentsen Announces Support for Tower | 3/9/1989 | See Source »

...harder against the certainties of Pentagon planners, as Americans watched nightly televised images of young men engaged in search-and-destroy missions with a stubbornly invisible enemy. Nonetheless, official American confidence was largely unshaken. The Communist enemy was believed by Lyndon Johnson's White House to be "struggling to stave off military defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

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