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...more than a year the industry has been waging a campaign to persuade President Reagan to impose quotas on shoes made overseas. Enlisted in the effort were 168 Congressmen, 40 Senators and 20 Governors, who sent letters or telegrams to the President. Shoe workers staged a two-day vigil in Lafayette Square, across from the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dropping the Other Shoe | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...eight months, Charles Griffith, 25, a theater projectionist, kept a vigil in a special-care ward of Miami Children's Hospital at the bedside of his comatose daughter Joy, 3. Injured last October when her neck became wedged in the footrest of a reclining chair, Joy suffered irreversible brain damage. Two weeks ago, after an evening visit with his daughter, Griffith fired two .32- cal. bullets into the child's heart, killing her. Griffith, who faces a first- degree murder charge, said last week, "I didn't want to see her hurt anymore. She couldn't eat, she couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: Mercy Killing Or Murder? | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...cockpit and said, 'Come here, will you? You left something in there.' You should have heard them laugh." In Beirut, Traugott was taken all over the city. Says he: "They took me out night after night, day after day. I was shown military complexes. I went to a funeral vigil in the middle of the night, down this alley, with a tank on each end of the alley, the tanks shrouded with black veils. A lot of soldiers, warriors, were standing there, heavily armed, with black headbands. Everyone was crying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roach Races and Russian Roulette * | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Meanwhile, a vigil had been in progress roughly 50 miles southeast, at the Lebanese-Syrian frontier. U.S. Ambassador to Syria William Eagleton, Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shareh and other officials of both nations had gathered at noon on Saturday to greet the hostage convoy. They also waited. And waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last, the Agony Is Over | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...hostage roll call and the border vigil by the diplomats were repeated on Sunday. This time all 39 Americans were together. After a quick calculation to make sure no one was missing, Conwell shouted, "Do you all want to go home?" In unison they replied, "Yeah!" Added Conwell: "O.K., fellows. I think we made it." This time the convoy did roll, and the patience of all of the negotiating parties in the strange deal that no one wanted to admit was a deal had finally been rewarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last, the Agony Is Over | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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