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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...strength, Iraq's military is not up to American or European standards. Only about 20% of its troops have proved themselves in combat, and only about 500 of its tanks are of the most modern type. Its air force was timid in attacks on Iran, and its military intelligence has nothing like the satellite and electronic capabilities of the U.S. What Iraq is good at is & fighting defensively. And when the going got worse, Saddam would probably fire his poison-gas weapons, much as he did against Iran when defeat looked imminent. He would also probably launch his missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Sitzkrieg in The Sand | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...influence of events in the Soviet Union has been stronger because we + and the Soviets have had a similar type of system. In the past several months, the actions of the Soviet Communist Party at conferences and congresses have been watched very carefully by the Chinese people, because the Soviets have passed laws on the development of multiparty democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's FANG LIZHI: The Science Of Human Rights | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

...against reform in principle, but the type of reform by Mr. De Klerk is a denial of the existence of a separate people who are entitled to self-determination. He started on the road of a unitary state, of participation by all individuals in the government of the country. For us, that means 30 million black people, with their own cultural, ethnic and racial background, will have an all-out majority against the rest of the population. It means whites are not entitled to govern themselves, to protect their rights, to protect their culture and way of living and aspirations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDRIES TREURNICHT: Dressing Apartheid in Nationalistic Clothes | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

Only a short while into the investigation, Sabich is called into Horgan's office, where several colleagues inform him of their own suspect: Sabich himself. Sabich appears incredulous at the accusation, but enough clues soon surface to indict him and bring him to trial. Because his own blood type matches up with that of the semen found in Polhemus, and fibers from the carpet in his house match those found in her apartment, Sabich must undergo invesigative scrutiny that leaves the viewer unsure about his innocence or guilt until the conclusion...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: A Very Predictable Beginning to Voice Over, But an End That May Leave You Speechless | 8/3/1990 | See Source »

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