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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The suits have not intimidated INS, which intends to continue prosecuting clergy and church workers who offer sanctuary to illegals. Another trial is scheduled to begin next month in Brownsville, Texas; Defendant Stacey Merkt is a Methodist. But the prosecutions, far from stemming the movement, have given it new prominence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Defeat for Sanctuary | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

For the Soviet Union, the consequences of Chernobyl could be devastating. Anywhere from two to 2,000 people near the plant were reported to have been killed by causes ranging from the initial blast to lethal radiation, and tens of thousands may have been evacuated from the endangered region. Meanwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Meltdown | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

El Salvador's military command has long been suspected of shielding officers from charges of involvement in the death squads that carried out tens of thousands of kidnapings and killings. But the code of silence has broken down since police cracked a ring that kidnaped wealthy people and held them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: The Military Breaks Ranks | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Like tens of thousands of other refuseniks, the Luries had applied for, and been denied, emigration from the USSR. Their case was unique, though. They had initially been granted exit visas in January 1980, a year after their first application. Three days before their expected departure date, however, Emmanuel Lurie...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: A Midwinter's Journey to the Soviet Union | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

Like earlier vaccines against pseudorabies, Biologics' Omnivac consists of pseudorabies viruses altered to prevent them from causing disease but still capable of triggering production of the antibodies that make swine immune. While the viruses in other vaccines are rendered harmless by conventional methods, the Omnivac viruses are altered by recombinant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fighting the Biotech Wars | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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