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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former husband and Olga's father, U.S. Architect William Wesley Peters, 72, whom she married in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1970 and divorced in 1973. He is extremely worried about Olga's future. "Her mother was lonely and distraught. She may have left for the U.S.S.R. impulsively, or possibly under constraint," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Svetlana Returns to Her Prison | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...speech. Two TV networks, CBS and Cable News Network, had the quip on tape but felt obliged not to air it because of a longstanding agreement with other broadcasters that Reagan's warmup sessions were off the record. As a print reporter, however, Devroy was under no such constraint. After hunting down what Reagan had said, she consulted with her editors and they sent the item out on the Gannett wire. Within a day the story was being carried by every major news organization, including the two networks that had it to begin with but felt free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: On and Off the Record | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...price you paid with spilled blood and 20 million dead"), but then blamed the Soviets' SS-20 missiles for upsetting the nuclear balance in Europe. When Mitterrand cited the 1975 Helsinki accords, which included a pledge to respect human rights, the guests realized what was coming. "All constraint against liberty could cast doubt on those freely accepted principles," Mitterrand intoned. "That is why we sometimes speak to you of the cases of individuals, some of whom have attained a symbolic dimension. That is the way to understand the emotion that exists in Europe and many other places for what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Not Even an Ironic Smile | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

Assimilation and separatism tend to obstruct the realization of pluralistic ideals the report states adding that students must be free to choose their social and intellectual affiliations without constraint...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Minority Leaders Question Dean's Annual Report | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

...best). Unfortunately, he fits as uneasily into English society as he did into simian society, despite the loving fuss made over him by his grandfather (the late Ralph Richardson in all his glorious eccentricity). The old man's death, when he attempts to break free of lordly constraint to celebrate his grandson's return, and the death of Tarzan's ape "father," at the hands of a panicky civilization, turn the noble savage into a premature existentialist permanent outsider, last seen heading back to the bush, where he will have to invent a life in the borderlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wild Child Noble Savage | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

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