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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much by Curren personally as by circumstances and Curren's modern racquet. Like everything ! else, there must be degrees of graphite. "He was hitting the ball harder than I was. I need something with a little more power." On this technological subject, he went so far as to suggest that West German Boris ("Boom-Boom") Becker, 17, the spectacular find of the tournament, was a souped-up shortcutter without a solid wooden foundation. But zing is more than string. McEnroe also had to admit, "I felt a little old out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fire Over Ice, in Three Sets | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...such athletic idols as Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox and former Dallas Cowboy Walt Garrison. The amount of snuff sold annually in the U.S. is up 60% since 1978. And while national figures on teenage use are not available, local surveys in Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Massachusetts suggest that between 20% and 40% of high school boys are chewing or dipping. No less worrisome is the finding, in Texas, that 55% of young dippers started before age 13. Says an exasperated Ann Ballard, a high school teacher in Houston: "I'm tired of finding cups filled with brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Into the Mouths of Babes | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...hitch, U.S. officials suggest, is that the demand sporadically issued as a condition for the release of the seven simply may not be negotiable. In return for their victims, the hostage takers have said they want freedom for 17 extremists who were convicted of the 1983 bombings of seven targets in Kuwait. Kuwait has firmly refused to release the terrorists, and the U.S. has supported its position. Besides, say U.S. sources, freeing them would not be an exchange of "innocent for innocent," or of "guilty for guilty," as in other recent swaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Seven Left Behind | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Pederasty is a puzzling perversion, which to many experts seems essentially incurable. The only solution, they suggest, is eliminating close contact between pederasts and boys. The disorder does not appear to affect any particular occupational group and remains a rarity among priests. Reporter Editor Thomas Fox says that there is a heightened awareness of child abuse and "parents are more willing to go to court to pursue justice instead of asking the bishop to reassign the priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Painful Secrets | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...matters, and Botha will have an effective veto over any Assembly decision. Moreover, the Ovambo tribe, which makes up roughly half of Namibia's population, has been given only one of the eight Cabinet seats, while whites, who constitute less than 8%, hold two. Western diplomats in the region suggest that South Africa aims to entrench a friendly government that will eventually force SWAPO, the predominantly Ovambo South-West African People's Organization, to turn from guerrilla warfare to political compromise. SWAPO, which has been at war with South Africa since 1966, refuses to join the new government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Africa Fighting Back | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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