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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suit him. "Machines don't hurt you," he has sometimes said. He ran the business out of his own spartan, meticulous apartment, where he stored the equipment acquired from suppliers all over the city. In order to bid on bargains at auctions and sales, Goetz often carried several thousand dollars in cash with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Troubled and Troubling Life | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...South Africa. Moreover, as history demonstrates, Marxist revolutions certainly produce totalitarian one-party dictatorships. Liberals who are sanguine about the consequences of Marxits revolutions should look at the human right relation of the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe (where Mugabe's Morth Korean-trained Fifth Brigade has killed several thousand Ndebele supporters of Nkomo before they blithely condemn South Africans Black to a similar fate...

Author: By Lars T. Waldorf, | Title: Not a Simple Moral Equation | 4/4/1985 | See Source »

According to Blackwill, the negotiations are aimed at reducing both NATO and Warsaw Pact military forces to a "common ceiling" of 700,000 ground troops each. However, this cap would require vastly larger cuts in Soviet-bloc troops, which outnumber NATO troops by several hundred thousand...

Author: By William G. Malley, | Title: K-School Dean to Head Troop Negotiating Team | 4/2/1985 | See Source »

...This was the single most difficult decision I've had to make as city manager," said Healy. The city manager, who was ultimately responsible for awarding the license, poured over thousand of amended application, state regulation, and publication testimony in preparation for the announcement...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: City Awards Cable License | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...thousand eyes turned to the press box and I recoiled into the background, praying for anonymity from the very spotlight, into whose glare I had gratefully jumped earlier that...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: My Dream Weekend In Duluth | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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