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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nice to kick someone while she's down, but I will. Cambridge State Representative Saundra Graham deserved to lose last week's Democratic primary. She ran a lousy, practically invisible campaign against a relative political unknown and lost by 49 votes. She may yet salvage her political career, but not without a long, hard lesson in the ABCs of politics...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Graham's Final Exam | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

...wave of violence comes a day after military commander Saw Maung overthrew the government of civilian President Maung Maung. The former president's whereabouts remain unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burmese Troops Fire on Demonstrators | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

Legislative aides and local politicians have been passing on that advice to Rep. Saundra Graham (D-Cambridge) since last Thursday night. That was when she lost her primary race to relative unknown Alvin P. Thompson by 49 votes...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Sticker Campaign Seen As Long Shot | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

...women. While warming up at the Tokyo World Sports Fair in May, American Julissa Gomez bounced badly off the springboard and hit her head against the horse. Instantly paralyzed, she later lapsed into a coma in a Tokyo hospital. She is now in Houston, and it is unknown whether she will ever regain consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Gym Shorts: Danger in a Bold New Move | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...Berndt, now a member of the West German Olympic team, told the Bonn daily Die Welt. "Nowhere else do athletes work so intensely and with such concentration. All your problems are taken off your hands." Exhibition meets, medical bills, sponsorship, job worries, troublesome journalists -- all such distractions are largely unknown to them. But there are other pressures. Academic performance and political education are closely monitored. A "socialist family tree" -- no close relatives in the West -- is required for international competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Watch Out For the G.D.R. | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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