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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questionable language. Among other things, he claimed as a major achievement that "the decline in defense spending has been reversed"-totally ignoring his 1976 campaign pledge to cut it further. Republicans quickly rose to the bait. John Tower of Texas, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said the document made "claims which border on the perfidious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Mood on Capitol Hill | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...plaintiffs called 40 witnesses, and the trial produced thousands of pages of testimony. For 13 months Judge Dooling, 71, a Roman Catholic and father of five, pondered the legal, religious and medical issues. Last week he issued a 642-page document in which he stopped short of ruling that the Hyde Amendment violated the constitutional separation of church and state. But he reasoned that by exempting medically necessary abortions from the comprehensive Medicaid program, the Government violated at least two constitutional guarantees: the Fifth Amendment rights of religious freedom and individual liberty. Dooling called a woman's freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Abortion Ruling | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

Lannon outlined his plans in a 102-page document, "Areas of Concern, 1979-1980-1981," presented to the school committee in an informal meeting last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superintendent Submits Outline Of Cambridge School Plans | 1/23/1980 | See Source »

...document, which details "goals" and "tasks" for the school's administrative staff, "shows a commitment to expanding community development in decision-making," school committee member Glenn Koocher '72 said after the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superintendent Submits Outline Of Cambridge School Plans | 1/23/1980 | See Source »

Judge Guerin's journal, a self-serving document, claims that the rebels were plotting their own attack on the notables. The historian's only alternative source, a seemingly unbiased royal notary, makes it clear that Paumier was cold-bloodedly murdered. Judicial murder followed, as the surviving rebels were rounded up, tried, and in many cases executed. The rural leaguers were crushed several months later after joining with Huguenot forces. Royal troops killed more than 1,000 at Moirans alone - "a bloodbath," the author observes, "at least by the relatively humane standards of the time, as compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death Masque | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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