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...conspiracy to murder an opposition politician. Benazir quickly demonstrated that she possesses her father's courage and political flair, as well as his headstrong nature. Pakistanis rallied to her by the hundreds of thousands. The next move, in a country whose nearly 40-year political history has been a tug-of-war between the generals and the politicians, is likely to be an effort by Benazir, through strikes and mass demonstrations, to step up the pressure on Zia to call elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Breezy Theme | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...Base in Hawaii, U.S. Customs officials were still examining his luggage. The deposed Philippine President and his 88-member entourage brought with them 22 boxes of freshly minted pesos and 278 crates of jewelry, artworks, gold and real estate deeds. That cache last week became the centerpiece in a tug-of-war between Marcos and the new government of Corazon Aquino, which claimed that the loot and other Marcos wealth abroad legally belonged to the Filipino people. The Reagan Administration found itself caught between its desire to help the fledgling Aquino government and its promise to provide Marcos with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Digging for Treasure | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...valleys and layered deposits of Mars . . . the grooved terrain of Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter) and the depression faults of Mercury." The crusts of Miranda and three of the four other major moons, Soderblom said, "have been tectonically shuffled in a cataclysmic fashion," probably by the powerful tug of gravity from Uranus, which has a diameter four times as large as the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Little Spacecraft That Could | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...year old beech tree across from the Orson Welles Theater on Mass. Ave. is at the center of an ongoing tug-of-war between a local real estate developer and the City of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S&S Suing City | 12/17/1985 | See Source »

...SOPHISTICATION of current-day feminist thinking is slowly leaving behind the tired battlefields of ideological tug-of-wars over sexual libidos. The new challenge it confronts, instead, is one of internal harmony; of coordinating theory and practice within a newly mobilized body hetero-politic. Even the notorious schism between French and Anglo feminisms--one noted for its theoretical avant-garde elegance, the other for its sensible economics--is really a matter of secret vanity; in actuality, it is an intellectualized space for self-consciously trying out new images of both feminists and women, thus transforming their cultural representations through selfexpression...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Porn a Cause for Expression, Not War | 10/8/1985 | See Source »

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