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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wheeler, 42, a veteran who is president of the Center for the Study of the Viet Nam Generation in Washington and chairman of the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Fund, argues that "there were drug cultures; there were green lieutenants. Stone / wanted to clean out the festering part of the wound. The next Viet Nam movie may be the one that tells the whole truth: that we were the best-equipped, best-trained army ever fielded, but against a dedicated foe in an impossible terrain. It was a state-of-the-art war on both sides. But Platoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...1980s, the era of cash-and-carry megadeals had wound down as oil prices declined and the oil sheiks became more sophisticated about arms transactions. By then they had reviewed thousands of arms proposals themselves and had sent their sons off to the U.S. to earn M.B.A.s. Khashoggi was no longer essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Businessman Adnan Khashoggi's High-Flying Realm | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

Lind tallied goal number two, while Carney wound up the first period scoring on an assist from Lind. "Harvard was all over us in the first period," said Toland. "In the second period we tried to play a more disciplined game...

Author: By Kristin Olson, | Title: Icewomen Down Green; Lind Leads Crimson, 5-1 | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

...vinyl suitcase stuffed with clothes and stereo tapes, Olebogeng planned to take the train home on Wednesday. But pay in hand and spirits high, he went out for a final fling with a friend and wound up missing his connection. The next day, nursing a hangover, he hitched an automobile ride with a black driver. For 300 miles, he rode through the scrub veld of the western Transvaal, past parched cornfields and through conservative Afrikaner towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Back Home for the Holidays | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...point of boredom. When Austrians voted in last week's general elections, however, a surprising number showed disenchantment with mainstream politics. Voters gave the ruling Socialists 80 seats in parliament, or ten fewer than they held before the election. The conservative ^ People's Party lost four seats and wound up with 77. The phenomenom of the campaign was Freedom Party Leader Jorg Haider, 36, who stressed Austria's ethnic and cultural ties with Germany and denounced corruption and privilege. Haider's right-wing party, which numbers ex-Nazi sympathizers among its members, raised its parliamentary seat total from twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria: Gains for the Maverick Right | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

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