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...When the Paris office of American Express volunteered to help restore the monument, however, a sensitive national nerve was pricked. "Americans threaten to land on Arc de Triomphe," howled the daily Liberation. Last week the National Federation for Public Works called for a massive fund drive. The Paris government says it will probably allow private companies like American Express to donate up to 40% of the restoration costs, which could come to $6 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: How to Cure a Falling Arch | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...Congress moves to rollback Reagan Administration restrictions on the flow of scientific information, the University appears to have stepped up efforts to oppose the limits, which it says threaten freedom of academic inquiry and opinion...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Harvard Opposes Restrictions Of Scientific Information Flow | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

...they worked, encouraging clients to pick up hammers and join them on weekends, and throwing parties in partly built houses to celebrate the completion of a foundation or their topping off of a roof. No, the Jersey Devil, which takes its name from a mythical creature said to threaten people in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, is no ordinary architectural firm. But don't get them wrong. Badanes, Jim Adamson, Greg Torchio and John Ringel are serious about what they do, and say it is in the best tradition of the American pioneer spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Homes with Gusto | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...Iraqis and could topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, whom Iranian Leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has vowed to crush. The global importance of the war was shown anew last week when the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk moved to within striking distance of newly installed Iranian missile batteries that threaten shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf. Though Basra is usually closed to Western reporters, Dean Fischer, TIME's Cairo bureau chief, visited the devastated city last week. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Life Among the Smoldering Ruins | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...which led them to decide that it was in fact a legitimate exercise of free speech. We expected that they would again act reasonably, and believe that had they done so, they would again have found our action to be a legitimate expression of free speech which did not threaten the continued speech of Kent-Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Blockade | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

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