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Observers of the count attributed the CCA's strong showing this year to the ballot referendum known as Proposition 1-2-3. Touted as a measure to promote home-ownership, 1-2-3 was attacked by the CCA and other protenant forces in the city as an effort to destroy rent control...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Duehay, Wolf Re-Elected to City Council | 11/11/1989 | See Source »

...correct, then he and two friends, playful inventors of a plot to rule the world, do not have long to live. In their machinations, have he and his coconspirators accidentally stumbled across some dangerous truth? Or, % perhaps worse, have their own words created forces that will try to destroy them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Litmus Test | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...because its sleek shape and special composite construction tend to absorb rather than reflect electronic signals. The same techniques will soon be used to introduce stealth missiles, ships, satellites and tanks. Moreover, military designers have developed missiles and other weapons that can zero in on electronic signals and thus destroy the ships and planes carrying radar. Faced with these trends, some Pentagon experts have raised a disturbing question: Is radar becoming obsolete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Threats to The Old Magic | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...chess champion also said he wished to forma new political party in the Soviet Union to"destroy the Communist base in the country,slowly...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: World Chess Champion Arrives for Match | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

...Soviet Union started by removing from operational status two Golf-class submarines and before the end of 1990 it will destroy the four remaining submarines of the same class," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gorbachev Cuts Soviet Nuclear Forces | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

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