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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...someone die [April 11] should be viewed with trepidation. Consider an infant born with an inoperable heart defect as well as a serious, but curable stomach blockage that renders feeding impossible. The infant would die if it underwent heart surgery. Yet without a strong heart it would almost certainly succumb if surgery were attempted on the stomach defect. With court-ordered surgery, physicians are now being forced into the role of executioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1983 | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...South Africa's recalcitrance on the Reagan Administration. Last year the U.S. began insisting that Namibia's independence be linked to the withdrawal of an estimated 30,000 Cuban troops from neighboring Marxist-led Angola. Only a year ago, many diplomats were optimistic that South Africa would succumb to pressure from the U.S., France, Britain, West Germany and Canada to allow U.N.-supervised elections that would lead to independence. Since then, South Africa has embraced linkage as an excuse to defer free elections. Little wonder: such a vote would probably be won by the South-West Africa People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Namibia: Unhappy Holiday | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...forecasts a 25% rise in shipments during the year, to 80 million tons, that is still less than 75% of current capacity and little more than half the peak production of 150.8 million tons in 1973. More worrisome still, signs are emerging that the beleaguered and struggling industry could succumb to labor strife and perhaps even a crippling midsummer strike by the United Steelworkers of America, when the union's current three-year contract expires in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Steel's Winter of Woes | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...chaplains, the precise spot where the catheters entered the arms. Of course, the dramatic content of the events was in inverse proportion to the excitement of the settings. In Clark's case, society asked him, as Dylan Thomas asked his father in a villanelle, not to succumb to death placidly, but to "rage, rage against the dying of the light." In the case of Brooks, society found a way for him to "go gentle into that good night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...almost sly awareness of other men's motives and how they might be levered to advance his own cause, and, above all, a sense of self-irony. He seems always to be keeping a wary, testing eye on himself, conscious of his own failings, watchful that he not succumb to the vanity of power. Kingsley's performance suggests that Gandhi's ability to lead derived not from the fact that he was different from other men but from his awareness that he was so like them, with only the force of his will to set him apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Triumph of a Martyr's Will | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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