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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...veteran member of the Charter 77 group, is associated with VIA, a dissident news service active in several East European countries. If convicted, he could be sentenced to 34 years in prison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechoslovak Marchers Protest Violence | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...must guarantee that the process of evolving toward sovereignty in Estonia doesn't jeopardize perestroika in the Soviet Union," says Arnold Green, 69, a veteran government official in Tallinn. "Otherwise, it will be a catastrophe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Washington's Captive Policy | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

With such a proposition, who could lose? Take Jackie Mason, the veteran Borscht Belt comic. Put him in a sitcom produced by the same people who created hits for Bill Cosby and Roseanne Barr. Give it the surefire time period following No. 1-rated Roseanne. Almost every TV prognosticator in the business picked Chicken Soup as the season's big hit. But Mason had a troubled autumn. He got bad reviews, both for his acting and for making racially inflammatory remarks during the New York City mayoral race. More dismaying to ABC, Chicken Soup -- though the highest-rated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Canned Soup: Jackie Mason gets the hook | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...what veteran White House observers said was an extension of the administration's cautious approach to superpower conflicts, President Bush yesterday refused to predict a winner in today's Game...

Author: By Johanna B. Berkman, | Title: Bush: No Prediction For Outcome of Game | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, a veteran of 20 Cambridge elections, predicted that the remaining seats would be distributed in accordance with the current first-choice vote rankings. That would mean a majority of five for the CCA, in addition to pro-tenant Independent Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. who is expected to side with the good-government group on most issues...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Duehay, Wolf Re-Elected to City Council | 11/11/1989 | See Source »

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