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...there, but finding it is no mean feat. This is because no one knows where to put it. Some record stores keep it in the folk or rock sections, since putting it under "classical" would cause an uproar. Others simply put it in the catch all: jazz...

Author: By Martin Kalz, | Title: Baroque Rock | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

...that when the U.S. sends an Ambassador to the Vatican, the country is in an uproar over the "separation of church and state," yet when the Rev. Jesse Jackson runs for the presidency, nobody says a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 13, 1984 | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...cause of all this uproar last week was the government's decision to award approximately 75 percent of Navy and Air Force fighter engine contracts to the General Electric company (GE). The Pratt and Whitney subsidiary of United Technologies (UT) had previously been the sole supplier of the F-15 and F-16 Air Force fighter engines, and the F-14 Navy engine. Surprise, surprise--Sen. Dodd's and Rep, Kennelly's home state of Connecticut also happens to be the home of Pratt and UT, while much of the new GE business will be done in Lynn, Mass...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Roll Out the Barrel | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

shouted ABC-TV Announcer D Al Michaels over the uproar of an ecstatic Lake Placid crowd as the last seconds of the Soviet-American Olympic hockey semifinal game ticked away with the Americans leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Miracle Is the Goal: Olympic Hockey | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...retirement of a four-star general who was one of NATO's two deputy commanders. Bonn buzzed with rumors about why the alliance's high command harbored a security risk. West German Defense Minister Manfred Wörner last week ended the speculation, but added to the uproar. He asserted in a terse televised announcement that General Günter Kiessling, 58, was an active homosexual. In a letter to Kiessling's lawyer, which was not made public but was excerpted in some German newspapers, Wörner said that the general had been mixing with "criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: General Unease | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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