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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HISTORY continually demonstrates to humanity the transigence of temporal power. How often have our mightiest civilizations and their rulers declined and fallen to the forces of time, unable to sustain the delicate balance of leadership, discipline and innovation that brought them supremacy in their day. Witness the Roman Empire, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let Them Drink Skim | 9/27/1988 | See Source »

The government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was meanwhile coping with a potential embarrassment of its own, in the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Last week a coroner's inquest opened into the March 6 killing of another three-member I.R.A. team by a squad from the British army's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland Another Cavalcade of Coffins | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

This week the most famous defendant netted in the five-year Uzbek investigation will go on trial before the military tribunal of the U.S.S.R.'s Supreme Court in Moscow. Yuri Churbanov, 51, Brezhnev's son-in-law and a former First Deputy Minister of the Interior, stands accused of accepting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Inc. Comes to Moscow | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

At first many spectators did not know what had happened. "I thought it was just some kind of special effect," said Victor Thompson, an airman stationed at Ramstein. Recalled another witness, U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant John Flanagan: "There was a second explosion and more fire, and that's when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany Hellfire from The Heavens | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

In a post-Watergate world, we have all become suckers for smoking guns and Murphy exploits this weakness in his readers to the hilt. His telling of the confirmation hearings is breathtaking, with Strom Thurmond, Sam Ervin and others titans of the Senate's conservative wing desperately trying to pin...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: The Murder-Suicide of Abe Fortas' Political Career | 8/12/1988 | See Source »

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