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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that smoke was coming out of Ford's distinguished looking pipe, either. The booters finally lit a metaphorical fire in the MIT defensive zone. Starting with a direct shot on goal only twenty seconds into the half, Harvard applied almost continual pressure on the MIT goal...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Booters Waste Engineers, 4-1 | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...government. Some of these victims have actually organized against Videla--have actually bombed government buildings, killed diplomats and government officials, and openly criticized the regime. But according to one member of the disbanded "Montoneros" urban guerrilla group, only a small percent of those persecuted by the government now have direct connections with the terrorist left. "At our heyday in 1975, we numbered only several thousand, along with other revolutionary groups, such as the ERP (Marxist People's Revolutionary Army). By 1977, most of us were either killed or had fled the country. The Desaparecidos today are generally nonmilitant family...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: Somewhere in Argentina... | 9/17/1980 | See Source »

...first time since the aborted American rescue mission in April that there had been any kind of direct contact between the two governments. The form was a letter from U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie to Iran's new Prime Minister, Mohammed Ali Raja'i. Muskie asked that Iran's parliament reconsider the release of the 52 American hostages still held in the country. Said a State Department official in Washington: "The letter represents an effort to open the lines of communication now that the Iranians are getting a constitutional government in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Score One for Linowitz | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...original source material. On page 44 of one handbook, for instance, Balsdon notes briskly, "I cannot imagine your having the time" to read all 77 pages on the Emperor Augustus, but he adds: "One document, however, you must read, the Res Gestae of Augustus." The teaching texts frequently direct students to consult particular portions of their main source books, or to jot down answers to questions. Maryland University and Broadcasting Center officials, who jointly direct the nonprofit N.U.C., say that many adults prefer such guided study at home to night-school classes. Observes Frederick Breitenfeld Jr., executive director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Degrees for Video Watchers | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...with a powerful new hypnotic-hallucinogenic drug that is euphemistically known as Lot Six and is called dilysergic triune acid, obviously a by-blow of LSD. Vicky, the mother, develops telekinetic ability, manipulating objects without physical contact. Andy McGee comes off the couch with the power to dominate and direct -"push," in King's word-other people's minds. The drug has changed both parents' chromosomal structure; it is this mutation, not convincingly explained by King, that has produced Charlie's pyrokinesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot Moppet | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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