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...Jevais les tuer!" (Where are the legislators? I am going to kill them!) By the time he reached the second floor and entered the Salon Bleu, the legislative chamber, three people were dead: an Assembly page, a messenger and an aide to the director of elections. Thirteen other Assembly employees were wounded, one seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Mr. D., A Gunman in Quebec | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...member of the 1980 U.S. Summer Olympic Team and a candidate for this year's team, the recent Soviet boycott announcement has convinced me of one thing. I should have been a downhill skier' Thirteen Winter Olympics have passed without significant political demonstration while the Summer Olympics have increasingly become the target for political abuse...

Author: By Charles Altekruse, | Title: =Playing Olympic Games= | 5/16/1984 | See Source »

...Kremlin has professed a willingness to stop the ASAT race before it begins. Thirteen months ago, the late Yuri Andropov called for an international ban on space weapons, and last August he declared a unilateral moratorium on Soviet launches of antisatellite weapons. While there is good reason to be wary of Soviets bearing disarmament initiatives, there is no reason for refusing to probe them further. Yet the Reagan Administration dismissed Soviet ASAT feelers out of hand. It did so partly because of its shortsighted and amnesiac confidence in the superiority of American high tech, and partly because of its deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Case Against Star Wars Weapons | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Similarly, a recent television program called. "Something About Amelia," portrayed a thirteen-year-old heroine who broke down before a counselor while describing how her father forced her to have sexual intercourse with him since age eleven. In a public-service-spirited denouncement, the counselor reassured her that she was not alone, and that this type of case was all too common...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Slow Dawn | 5/3/1984 | See Source »

...voted in the November general election. Walter F.Mondale's campaign manager. James Johnson, has told reporters that the Democrats should be able to reverse their 1980 Josses if they can bring that percentage up to 57 or 58. Especially important in such calculations are a ream of electoral votes. Thirteen states that Reagan carried in 1980 have unregistered voters exceeding Reagan's respective margins of victory there, including Massachusetts, New York, and Mississippi...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Preaching to the Unconverted | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

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