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...resulted in fitful and inconsistent support from Congress. That has made it difficult for the contras to do more than irritate the Sandinistas. Now, just as the contras seem ready to galvanize their military efforts with a new supply of direct U.S. aid, they find themselves caught in the undertow of Iranscam, with their support in Washington again ebbing away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Shows Its Impatience | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...explore their plight, Time Correspondent Jon D. Hull took up residence on the streets of Philadelphia. Some of the people he met, like a former construction worker named George, are still struggling to find a way up. Others, like a former machinist named Gary, seem hopelessly caught in the undertow. Many once led normal lives, with jobs and families and homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Descent into Hell | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...steadily shifted until, by 1980, the average Black family income of the entering freshman student approached the national average in a nation with vast and increasing racial inequality of income. You would think that Harvard would be more concerned with diversity of leadership than with kowtowing to dominant conservative undertow--if you were unfamiliar with Harvard. Concerned students, faculty, and alums at this and other educational institutions should come together to rectify this situation...

Author: By Jeffrey ALAN Holman, | Title: Mail | 7/29/1986 | See Source »

...from the window of a car that is moving too fast in the passing lane. Simple, direct, traditional, without the calculated callowness of retro rock. Despite the modest claims of Neumann and Llanas, the echoes of the BoDeans' music cut past the surface calm. These tunes have a strong undertow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Invaders From Waukesha | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...professionals including a historian, an ethnographer and a Bible student. Because the daily reports could have been read by Nazi authorities, they are necessarily devoid of comments about jackboot cruelty or speculations about the neighboring death camp of Chelmno, less than an hour's drive away. But an undertow of agony tugs at the facts. That road, praised as "a monument to the ghetto's vitality," leads to a cemetery where more than 43,000 inmates, many of them children, will end their stay. Potato peels are a prized dinner item. Notes of suicides bracket a "highly successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stained with a Different Darkness | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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