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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garrisons on the other side become unthreatening? Irving Kristol and Tom Bethell have been urging for years that the U.S. wind down NATO. The tradition of American noninterventionism is a long one (we like pedigrees for our prejudices). America should not "go abroad in search of monsters to destroy," as John Quincy Adams put it. "She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." At the same time, our present forward position is the end product of an equally long thrust of American expansion, which was propelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Being Right in a Post-Postwar World | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...party split, Kroker said, "we would also destroy the hope for a free and cohesive society that we and the others want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New E. German Party Leader Proposed | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

Despite these faults, last weekend's performance could not completely destroy Gilbert and Sullivan's lyrics and music. Gilbert's quick-witted criticisms of the arbitrary English caste system--as well as some of the slapstick humor added by director Matt Buchanan--made the audience laugh...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: An Unsteady Ship | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

America has fought a long and hard war for global democracy since the days of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04. Now the nation must turn inward and correct some of the many problems that threaten to destroy what we have fought to preserve...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Rebuilding America After Berlin | 12/6/1989 | See Source »

...million hotel on St. Croix scheduled to open in late 1992. Great Pond Bay Resorts just won approval for a $250 million project with 350 hotel rooms and 600 condos. If the islands all do struggle back, it may be because in the end Hugo could not destroy what most people come to the Caribbean to find. It could not make the sea less bright or the sun less clear, or bestir the starfish or break the spirits of the islands' hosts. The present flurry of activity may be at odds with the placid island tempo, but it reflects that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Rebuilding Paradise | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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