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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five years. Delvalle said he had requested Noriega to "voluntarily step aside" while the U.S. investigated drug-trafficking charges that federal grand juries in Miami and Tampa had brought against the general in early February. His remarks completed, Delvalle bade good evening to his fellow citizens, leaving them to wonder what would happen next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still in Charge: An attempt to oust Panama's boss | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Macon's whites are a tad cynical about Gore. "I've heard some people wonder whether he's too wishy-washy," says Lawing, "trying to look more conservative in the South than he really is." Competition from foreign textiles and other imports worries people, and Gephardt's protectionist message might find a sympathetic audience. "If he's for limiting imports," says Prew Wilson, 54, who lost his job at a textile mill last Christmas, "you can bet I'll listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Away, Dixieland | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Success at home and attention from abroad made Takarabe wonder whether such a course would not succeed outside Japan. To help teach a U.S. version, he recruited two Americans. First, though, they had to pass the course themselves. Recalls Fred Delisle, 55, a retired U.S. Army colonel: "I told myself, 'Hell, I can't do this,' but pretty soon I was doing it." He and Classmate Dan Galitz, a former police training officer, finished ninth and seventh, respectively, in a class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to Hell Camp | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...must wonder how Mr. Orenstein would have reacted had my statement been that I would seek to "represent the Black students on campus as much as those who are white," or "represent the female students on campus as much as those who are male." Would he still have assailed me as presenting "one brilliant formulation of minority rule?" Would he still have called me an "impotent" legislator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Council | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

Forward: Mara Yale, Brown. (And I don'tmean Mara Brown, Yale.) One could go over everypossible Freudian or anti-Freudian implication ofhaving one university's name on the front of theuniform and another on the back. Wonder if there'ssomeone in her family named Eli or Padlock...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: The Name Game | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

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