The Eighties Club The Politics and Pop Culture of the 1980s

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Primary Sources

In this section you'll find important events of the 1980s explored through the use of primary sources -- Facts on File, Time Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, The Economist, and editorials from dozens of major American newspapers. Read what people were saying at the time about the key issues and events of the day. January 1984 1. Jesse Jackson's Mission to Damascus 2. Task Force Can't Find Widespread Hunger in America 3. President Reagan Seeks Second Term 4. Supreme Court Rules on the Home Use of VCRs 5. Civil Rights Panel Renounces Racial Quotas February 1984 1. Reagan Orders Marines Out of Lebanon 2. Soviet President Yuri Andropov Dies 3. New Budget Means Bigger Defense, Bigger Deficit 4. Raising the National Drinking Age to 21 5. Jesse Jackson Apologizes for Ethnic Slur