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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Isabelle Adjani are filming Ishtar in New York City, everyone has taken a vow of silence. In the circumstances, this may have made more sense than taking a vow of poverty or chastity, but it put the rumor mill into overdrive. Worst was the word that the breathtaking Adjani was playing a young man. Such casting would have been a high offense against Gallic gifts, as Adjani proved anew in a recent photo session modeling her favorite clothes from the collections of such designers as Paris' Azzedine Alaia. But Adjani admirers, fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 17, 1986 | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...recognize that the per-capita income is very low, that the distribution of wealth is unequal and shocking," he said, speaking in French. "I solemnly vow to present a new plan for society under which all resources will be kept under strict control. It is already designed by planners and will be presented to you soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haiti Declares Seige Over Violence | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

Buscetta, the highest Mafia figure ever to inform on the Mob, said that breaking the organization's vow of silence was punishable by "morte--death." For his safety, he is being kept under close guard by the FBI in an undisclosed location while he testifies at the trial of some of the Mafia's top members from Sicily and the U.S.'s East Coast. They are charged in what has been called the "pizza connection" heroin case, since some of the drugs were allegedly peddled from pizza storefronts. Buscetta, 57, hopes his cooperation with prosecutors will lead to freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mafia's Murderous Code | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

Over the past year, about 100 undergraduates, graduate students and professors have signed a national petition pledging to oppose an escalation of U.S. military involvement in Central America. Signers of the petition vow to combat military aggression with acts of civil disobedience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 Students Wage Battle Against War | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...forces from Lebanon last June, it warned that attacks on northern Israel would provoke retaliation. Last week, after rocket assaults on northern settlements, the death of two Israeli soldiers in a south Lebanon ambush and a string of suicide car-bomb attacks, the country made good its vow. Backed by helicopter gunships and heavy armor, Israeli troops stormed into three Lebanese Shi'ite communities near Israel's border. The primary target was Qabrikha, from where, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said, Israel has been attacked by Katyusha rockets. The Israelis ordered residents out of their homes, then conducted house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Irreconcilable Differences; Israel An Eye For An Eye: | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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