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Day after day on the front pages, night after night on television screens, Argentina is reliving -- and hoping to redeem -- a bloodstained past. Confronting the country are full and grisly accounts of the "dirty war," the years between 1976 and 1981, in which at least 10,000 Argentines either were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina a National Exorcism | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

It can be hard, now, to get her to talk about her scroungy years in New York. She recalls being fired from a long succession of ratty jobs. She resents suggestions that she slept her way to the top. That is not because she didn't learn her trade from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Madonna Rocks the Land | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Only hours earlier, Khartoum (pop. 1.4 million) had been a ghost town. Doctors, lawyers, engineers were on strike. The airport and most stores were closed. President Gaafar Nimeiri, the wily strongman who had weathered a succession of coup attempts during an almost 16-year reign, was outside the country. Now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan a Joyful, Fragile Revival | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Exxon explained that the golden send-off was its way of making room at the top. Since 1983, three members of the company's board of directors have / received similar payments. Said the company proxy statement, which was mailed to stockholders last week: "For many years the corporation has, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Compensation: Sweet Sorrow At Exxon | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

ABC's successes in the late '70s were not limited to prime time. The network's soap operas (General Hospital, All My Children, One Life to Live) made it No. 1 in the daytime ratings by emphasizing younger characters, livelier story lines and more elaborate production values than its rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Battling Back From No. 3 | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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