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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claim is that there was not full disclosure and some misrepresentation by Merrill Lynch," says Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54. Speaking earlier this week, Steiner declined to comment further on the case...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: $135 Million Stakes: Building the Case | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

...understand that he has thought this through, that this is wisdom, that this is reasoned. But if the youth of the '60s were "at-least-passionate," then the youth of the 1980s--my peers who watched the divorce rate among their parents skyrocket (at-least-passionate), who watched AIDS claim the lives of thousands (at-least-passionate), who came to view successful marriages as the exception to the rule, who came to understand that, for their parents' generation, passion and durability were a trade-off--the youth of the '80s are "at-least-surviving." Before I engage in a generalization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Refusing the 'Base Compromise' | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

LOOKING only to the events of this past year, numerous images claim indelible places in our memory and imagination. Millions marched in China's capital for political reform this spring before they gathered in East Germany. Leaders in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria have followed the Soviet Union's lead step-by-step in opening up totalitarian regimes...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Reflections on the Euphoria | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...some Soviet politicians and scientists now claim that a cover-up is still going on. They charge that 1) the accident released at least 20 times more radiation than the government has admitted, 2) Communist officials failed to evacuate nearby towns and cities right away, although they knew of the danger, and 3) the Soviet nuclear establishment had known that the Chernobyl design was unsafe. "I believe we must launch an investigation and learn who was responsible," says Alexei Yablokov, deputy chairman of the Committee on Ecology and the Rational Use of Natural Resources in the Congress of People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Chernobyl Cover-Up | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Much of what the critics say is based on secret documents and firsthand experience, and will be hard for the government to refute. People's Deputy Yuri Voronezhtsev, from Byelorussia, near Chernobyl, says medical records contradict the official claim that iodine was given to all of those exposed to radiation in order to prevent the absorption of radioactive iodine by the thyroid gland. Another Byelorussian, writer Ales Adamovich, says local officials ignored the appeals of a physicist to evacuate the area until he showed them that party headquarters itself was contaminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Chernobyl Cover-Up | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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