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...unknown reason the matter was dropped that fall, and Ritacco never responded. The Cambridge inspector was later dismissed for unrelated reasons. Cambridge inspectional services is also under investigation for possible violations in its inspection procedures...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: A Child's Fall Prompts City Safety Reviews | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Next there is Raisa the Unknown. Considering that she is the wife of the leader of one of the world's superpowers, there are wide gaps in the public record, at home and abroad, about her early life. Only within the past few years has there been general agreement in the West on Raisa Maximovna Gorbachev's birth date, Jan. 5, 1932, and that she was born in the Siberian town of Rubtsovsk. Her father was a railroad engineer named Maxim Titorenko. That is about all there is to her official biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev: My Wife Is a Very Independent Lady | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...toting unwieldy shopping bundles onto crowded buses and along often unpaved footpaths, to prepare meals for the family. Housecleaning, like cooking, is done largely without the help of modern appliances. Dishes are washed by hand. Clothing is generally laundered in tubs, then hung out to dry. Disposable diapers are unknown. Floors are scrubbed with brooms wrapped in damp cloths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroines Of Soviet Labor | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...nuclear power stations and prohibits nuclear weapons on its territory in peacetime, but its no-nukes policy has failed to protect it from nuclear scandal. Last week the Norwegian Foreign Ministry confirmed that some 15 tons of the country's heavy water was diverted in 1983 to an unknown destination. Prized for its purity, Norwegian heavy water, or deuterium oxide, is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors and to produce plutonium, an ingredient in nuclear bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Norway: A Case of Hot Water | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...Jimmy Carter," said Bush Campaign Manager Lee Atwater. Reason for the assaults: "Dukakis is starting to emerge as a stature candidate, slightly bigger than life," explained a Bush aide. "That has to be nipped. It's much easier to shape opinion about a candidate when he's still relatively unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's New Balancing Act | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

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