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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tunnels they claimed to have dug and "blow the block." (This reason looked a bit hollow after the fire, when investigators discovered no tunnels. To explain the absence of heavier weapons in the debris of the Move house, police still theorized that members had been able in some unknown way to move back and forth to other dwellings on Osage.) Finally, police feared that waiting would give Move members a chance to escape in the darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Looks Just Like a War Zone | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Despite their differences, however, the two groups share the anxiety of outnumbered usurpers. They dwell in the past, using jargon and jingoism, history and mythology to erect walls around themselves and ward off the unknown. The white South African, contends Crapanzano, exists in a state of suspended animation. His waiting produces "feelings of powerlessness, helplessness . . . and all the rage that these feelings evoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Walls Waiting: the Whites of South Africa | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Junior Cecil Cox remains an unknown quantity, with the ability to now down opposing batters, but nagging control problems. Sophomore Mike Press will try to bounce back from the shoulder injury that knocked him out one week into this season...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Harvard Misses Out on Its Place in the Sun | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

...France, V-E day was a holiday, but in many respects it seemed business as usual. President Francois Mitterrand, a former Resistance fighter, reviewed troops in a brief ceremony and placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. He also sent a message to the Soviet Union in which he said that "the French have not forgotten the sacrifices of the Soviet people" in the battle against fascism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe the Divisive | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...land. Moments later, with 17 Marines aboard, the aircraft plunged into the Pacific. The second helicopter apparently spotted men in the water and dropped dye markers and a raft, but after a 24-hour search by planes and ships, no survivors were found. The cause of the crash remains unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters Death on Friendship Day | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

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