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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of Kinnock's success has come despite a bold -- and, for Britain, potentially dangerous -- policy on national defense. Labor delegates last week overwhelmingly reaffirmed the party's commitment to abandon Britain's independent nuclear deterrent and close down all six U.S. nuclear bases in the country. That antinuclear posture has helped Kinnock unite his party, but he is gambling that it will not alienate mainstream voters and cost Labor the election, as it was largely responsible for doing in 1983. If a Labor government under Kinnock carries out that policy, the blow to the alliance would be greater than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Folding Up the U.S. Umbrella | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...appreciate how seriously the U.S. takes human rights, and think they need to hear the American position directly from Reagan. With the partial exception of INF, a mere listing of the positions of the two sides on the agenda's main items could lead to bleak predictions for success. But the great imponderable is the extent to which the two leaders, talking face to face, can find the compromises that have so far eluded their bargainers. The conference arrangements are being drawn to maximize the chance that they can. Though Reagan and Gorbachev are not giving themselves much time -- only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iceland Cometh | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

Today's contest could well be decided by a field goal or less, so the experience of the Cornell defense and the recent success of Aug could play an especially important role...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders Up Against Big Red Machine | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

...Harvard women have had even better success than the Crimson men. Their 6-1-0 overall record (1-0-0 Ivy League) has earned them a 17th-place national ranking. Cornell, however, is one notch ahead of them at 16th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Showdowns: Cornell vs. Crimson | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

Duehay, who is credited by many with the success of the plan, cited the development along Mass. Ave. between Central Square and Harvard Square as an example of the destructive possibilities of uncontrolled growth...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: Mass. Avenue Rezoned by City | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

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