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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Out on the plains, Buffalo Commons is called Poppercock and worse. At least four Governors have denounced it. Bodyguards were furnished for the Poppers this spring when they went onstage in Nebraska to further explain their idea. But the Poppers did win support from other academics, some in the plains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Where the Buffalo Roamed | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

The unrest led the Saudi government to begin a major public-works program in the Shi'ite region, which has always produced the lion's share of modern Saudi Arabia's oil wealth and received little in return. The situation further improved in 1985 when the brutal administration in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Shi'Ites: Poorer Cousins | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

The Prime Minister had barely finished explaining his new "moderate- radical' ' program for a gradual, state-regulated move toward a market economy when his critics began sounding off. "I listened, and can't understand what has been presented to us," snapped radical Leningrad Mayor Anatoli Sobchak. "Is this a government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Beyond Perestroika | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Gorbachev discussed the Soviet Union's economic reforms later in the week with a gilt-edged delegation of American businessmen from 15 of the country's largest firms, who had gone to Moscow with Secretary of State James Baker and Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher. Gorbachev hinted that the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Beyond Perestroika | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

But the bachelor from Weare, N.H., keenly senses that he has been chosen by Bush and history to cast perhaps the deciding vote on whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion legal in all states. He gave scant comfort to either side on that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Souter; Supreme Confidence | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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