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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marks seems generally unfamiliar with international law. I would add that the narrowly circumscribed notion of responsibility employed by the commission and apparently subscribed to by Mr. Mak is not only an insult to commonsense, but to international legal principles as well. He might be reminded that German financiers and industrialists, whose contributions to the Nazi war machine were far less direct than the Israelis' contributory role in the Beirut massacres, were indicted and tried in the Nuremberg Trials. Moreover, Article 3(e) of the U.N. Convention on Genocide regards complicity in genocide to be a punishable act; there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Mideast | 3/17/1983 | See Source »

Everything and everyone seem to be conspiring against the substitute. Because of featherbedding rules of the stagehands union, for example, understudies usually have to rehearse without props, costumes or scenery. Sometimes an actor is so busy trying to avoid bumping into unfamiliar furniture that he can scarcely think about the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No More Waiting in the Wings | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...only did they rarely play together during the regular season, but since Busconi was playing right wing, Burke had to move to left wing, an unfamiliar position...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Three Unlikely Heroes | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...general. The corporate Lancelots usually pay a great deal more for the companies that they rescue than hostile raiders would have paid in the first place. And they must live with the results of such expensive derring-do. Too often that means coping with huge financial burdens and assimilating unfamiliar corporations. Some of the mergers may eventually work out, but few of them, at least so far, are showing any great success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Knights and Black Eyes | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...page ad from Reno Sports Service proclaims the Nevada group "America's "Lock Champs." They claim to have been 100 percent the past four seasons--"documented." Quite simply, "Reno Sports Service has NEVER LOST. 'LOCK' game" in that time. "For those readers unfamiliar with the term, a 'LOCK' is a game which for 'certain inside reasons' is as close as humanly possible to a sure thing. These game are 'LEAD PIPE CINCHES.' Our remarkable ability to select these 'LOCK' games him drive the sports book operators 'right up the wall and they have NO WAY OF STOPPING YOU FROM MAKING...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: In a League by Themselves$ | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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