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to the Golan Heights. Furthermore, some of Presi- dent Reagan’s chief advisers—including Vice Presi- dent George H. W. Bush, Sec ...

Brought to Justice. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Account of the notorious espionage case by an American naval in ...

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Jackson, Bo Identification Professional baseball and football player Born November 30, 1962; Bessemer, Alabama Bo Jackson be ...

thought that Jackson would opt to play professional football instead of baseball, he slipped to the fourth round in the 1986 Maj ...

of the political process, including 40 million poor whites, 6 million Hispanics, one-half million Native Americans, and millions ...

cluding those in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis- sissippi, and Virginia. He gained an increasingly multiracial following, winn ...

On the heels of his enormous popularity, Jackson signed a $15 million promotional contract with Pepsi in 1984, but he was seriou ...

MTV’s Vanguard Award for outstanding contribu- tion to music video production, the Special Award of Achievement at the American ...

in 1970, reached $10 billion in 1980, and climbed to $60 billion in 1987. The increasing trade deficit alarmed the United States ...

Centur y: A View of the Histor y and a Rationale for Its Survival. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, Puts the strengths and ...

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Jazz The Eighties in America Selected 1980’s Jazz Albums Year Title Artist 1980 Ella Abraca Jobim Ella Fitzgerald Give Me ...

which he often did onstage during performances. Other jazz legends who continued to perform live during the 1980’s included bass ...

quently at mainstream institutions, and jazz musi- cians were recognized as important contributors to and participants in Americ ...

night with Peter Jennings. During the 1980’s, Jennings covered the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections, the 1985 highjacking of ...

the political changes in the Soviet Union prompted the United States to decide to phase out refugee sta- tus for Soviet Jews, re ...

See also Cold War; Feminism; Film in the United States;Heidi Chronicles, The; Immigration to the United States; Israel and the U ...

Further Reading Johnson, Earvin.My Life. New York: Random House, 1996. Kramer, Sydelle A.Basketball’s Greatest Players. New York ...

1980’s, real income declined or stayed the same for lower-income individuals while wealth rose rapidly for the wealthy. The bott ...

influence in journalism and how it affects the workings of democracy. McPherson, James Brian.Journalism at the End of the Americ ...

Cain. Following an exhaustive tour, Perry left. Jour- ney dissolved in 1987, and Schon and Cain moved on to other projects. A fa ...