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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are about 650,000 sheep. There used to be 100,000 wild cattle too, but they almost all got killed, as did the elsewhere-unknown "wolf fox," called the warrah. There are also sea lions, sometimes in colonies as large as 300, and elephant seals up to four tons in weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Place Fit for Buccaneers | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...night before as he left a restaurant. Two hours later, he was found in a garbage dump with bullets in his arms, back and skull. He lived for another twelve hours before becoming the latest victim in San Salvador's circle of death and mourning. The assailants were unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Dividing the Spoils | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...this is unknown to Irena, when she goes to New Orleans to live with her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell). Having been raised in orphanages and foster homes, Irena has never met Paul, but she has dreamt about him. Paul has likewise dreamt about Irena--dirty dreams. He too is a cat person...

Author: By Joseph C. Gorini, | Title: Feline Fetishes | 4/13/1982 | See Source »

This expensive, technically proficient remake of a 1933 German movie focuses on the adventures of a starving singer. Victoria (Julie Andrews) who is befriended by a failing gay nightclub entertainer. Toddy (Robert Preston). He appreciates her vocal talents and realizes how to market her. She becomes Victor, a delicate, unknown member of the Eastern European nobility who is Paris's greatest female impersonator. Enter King (James Garner), a Chicago gangster who becomes Victoria's love interest but refuses to accept the label of homosexuality his low-life companions attach to him because of his association with "Victor." Complications ensue...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: No Surprises | 4/13/1982 | See Source »

...Senator, with 42 years in Washington, was arguing that leaders of both right and left, facing new problems of economics and power, had responded to the unknown by retreating into safe but worn-out rules and conventions of diplomacy and politics. There they were moored, liberals and conservatives, bombarding each other with conventional foolishness, while the world clamored for common sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: New Rules for New Problems | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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