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The small smile that creased his normally stolid face said more than a thousand press conferences: Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker was pleased. And with good reason. Seven years ago, he set out to negotiate a peaceful solution to the conflict involving Angola, Cuba and South Africa. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola Shifts in the Wind | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

Still, there's something disconcerting about the purists who view last night's first game under the lights at the old ball field as Black Monday. One novelist was interviewed some time ago about the impending tragedy. He waxed philosophical about the meaning of the game, the importance of leisure...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: "Yeah, Gimme a Light" | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

As usual, there was speculation that Iran's change of heart might be related to the 88-year-old Khomeini's deteriorating health. In June the CIA received a report that the Imam was suffering from heart disease, a blood clot or tumor in the brain, and prostate cancer that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf On the Brink of Peace | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

In case you don't get th' point about th' "disease," th' mother acts real paranoid about germs, n' a lamb gets maggots. Also, there's an impending plague of another sort: what th' son calls a "zombie invasion," zombies bein' all th' slick nobodies who're buyin' up land...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

So long, it's been good to know ya. Attorney General Edwin Meese will be gone before the Democratic Convention, Bush sources hope. He'll resign just as soon as he has had a chance to mount a face-saving p.r. offensive against the impending report from Independent Counsel James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Jul. 11, 1988 | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

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