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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arbatov's attempt to wash over the human rights issue is distressing but predictable because respect for the individual is the one area in which the West remain-clearly superior to the Last Certainly excesses on our side exist the persecution of Indians and Blacks come immediately to mind. And more recently U.S. policies in Central America have been far from exemplary. But some basis comparisons are worth drawing. An American could never publish a book critical of Soviet foreign...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: How They See It | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

Chris Stacey Spokane, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 11, 1983 | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...when Dr. Wilhelm Staeglich wrote his book. The Auschwitz Myth, he did not attempt to restore man's faith in his own humanity--a faith badly shaken by the Nazi's cold, calculated brutality. The West German neo-Nazi tried to revive anti-Semitic "Jewish conspiracy" theories and to wash the bloodstains off Hitler and a Germany gone...

Author: By Seth A. Tucker, | Title: And Liberty for All | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

After graduating summa cum laude from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. in 1978, she worked as a teller at a local bank and three months later parlayed her one college computer course into a job in the computer section the bank was forming. Less than a year later, she was asked to become head of the operation. But she decided to study linguistics at Harvard instead. "Four years of Walla Walla was all anyone could stand," she explains...

Author: By Dean R. Madden, | Title: A Scholar's World | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

...drops without the replenishing nutrients from trees. Rivers swing from one seasonal extreme to another, sending flood waters surging off the mountains in the rainy season and causing long periods of drought in summer. The torrents may be accompanied by landslides. More subtle damage comes from silting. As rivers wash debris into the clear coastal waters, the particles reduce the transparency of the sea, cut down sunlight and kill off coral reefs and valuable coastal sea grasses, on which much marine life depends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting Blight in Paradise | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

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