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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Cambodians said they welcomed the withdrawal, while others said they feared the Khmer Rouge, which has been on the offensive as the Vietnamese withdraw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hanoi Pulls Last Troops From Cambodia | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

...strength and weakness of this striking work is that it reads like a crime novel. But its protagonist, Jay Carsey, at age 47 really was president of Charles County Community College in Maryland. And on May 19, 1982, days before commencement, he really did withdraw $28,000 from the bank, drive to the airport, mail several letters, down some vodkas and board a flight. One of the letters was a brief note of resignation. One was a short statement to his wife that he was leaving because he was a "physical and psychological disaster." A postcard, to a close friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Pie | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...McAfee case comes at a time when the right-to-die issue is taking on new urgency in the U.S. Most such cases, unlike McAfee's, involve comatose patients whose families are seeking to withdraw life-support systems. This fall the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on such a situation for the first time when it considers the case of Nancy Cruzan, 32, a Missouri factory worker who has been in an irreversible vegetative state for six years. The court has been asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to allow Cruzan's family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Death Wish | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...successor, Linda S. Wilson, was named in May after a search that saw several of the top contenders--including Yale professor Judith Rodin--withdraw their names from contention for the Radcliffe post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Leader | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

...Danzig to Germany. Just before noon on the day of the invasion, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, a devoted believer in the appeasement of Hitler, telephoned Rome to say that France would welcome such a conference. He did not even mention any need for the Germans first to withdraw from Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blitzkrieg September 1, 1939: a new kind of warfare engulfs Poland | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

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