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Subject(s)

• Nineteen eighty-six, A.D.—Sources [Browse]
• History, Modern—20th century—Sources [Browse]
• World politics—1985-1995—Sources [Browse]

Editor

• CQ Press [Browse]

Issuing body

• CQ Press [Browse]

Summary note

Each volume in this series begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each documents or set of documents begins with an essay that discusses background history and context of the event covered and the document chosen.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 1987.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 16, 2014).

Contents

• January
• Reagan-Gorbachev New Year's messages: January 1, 1986
• Gorbachev's arms control proposal: January 15, 1986.
• February
• Pope's trip to India: February 1-10, 1986
• State of the Union address: February 4, 1986
• President's budget message: February 5, 1986
• President's economic report, economic advisers' report: February 6, 1986
• Shcharansky release: February 11, 1986
• State department report on human rights practices: February 13, 1986
• Senate ratification of the genocide convention: February 19, 1986
• Court on adult theaters: February 25, 1986
• Gorbachev's address to 27th Soviet party congress: February 25, 1986
• Ueberroth on drugs in baseball: February 28, 1986.
• March
• President's commission on organized crime: March 3, March 6, and April 1, 1986
• Department of education report on teaching and learning: March 4, 1986
• Report on Philadelphia police raid on MOVE group: March 6, 1986
• Gao report on air traffic safety: March 6, 1986
• U.S. reduction of Soviet UN mission: March 7, 1986
• Harvard report on Medicare reform: March 12, 1986
• OTA report on biotechnology: March 17, 1986
• Philippine change of government: March 25, 1986.
• April
• The Vatican on liberation theology: April 5, 1986
• Pope's visit to Rome synagogue: April 13, 1986
• Reagan address on U.S. air strike against Libya: April 14, 1986
• Court on media libel of private figures: April 21, 1986
• South African pass laws: April 23, 1986
• Chernobyl nuclear accident: April 28 and August 25, 1986
• Court on peremptory challenge: April 30, 1986.
• May
• Tokyo economic summit: May 4-6, 1986
• Court on jury selection in capital cases: May 5, 1986
• Carnegie report on the teaching profession: May 16, 1986.
• June
• Interferon approval: June 4, 1986
• Institute of medicine report on for-profit hospitals: June 5, 1986
• Challenger accident commission report: June 6, 1986
• Court on sustaining handicapped infants: June 9, 1986
• Court on abortion right: June 11, 1986
• Commonwealth group report on South Africa: June 12, 1986
• Appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court: June 17, 1986
• Court on sodomy and privacy: June 30, 1986
• Court on political gerrymandering: June 30, 1986.
• July
• Pope's trip to Colombia: July1-2, 1986
• Court on affirmative action: July 2, 1986
• Packard commission report on defense management: July 2, 1986
• Statue of liberty's centennial: July 3, 1986
• Court on mandatory budget cuts: July 7, 1986
• Court on students' free speech: July 7, 1986
• Waldheim's inaugural address: July 8, 1986
• U.S.-U.K. extradition treaty: July 17, 1986
• Vatican disciplining of Father Curran: July 25, 1986
• ABA report on legal professionalism: July 27, 1986.
• August
• Former security officials' paper on defense strategy
• Berlin Wall anniversary: August 13, 1986.
• September
• Education secretary's report on elementary education: September 2, 1986
• Daniloff arrest in Moscow: September 8 and 14, 1986
• Chirac's statement on French antiterrorist plan: September 14, 1986
• Reagan's executive order on drug testing: September 15, 1986.
• October
• Impeachment of Judge Claiborne: October 9, 1986
• Environmental defense fund on World Bank project: October 10, 1986
• World leaders on Iceland summit: October 13 and 14, 1986
• Institute of medicine report on AIDS: October 29, 1986
• Vatican on pastoral care of homosexuals: October 30, 1986
• UN report on human rights in Afghanistan: October 31, 1986.
• November
• Carnegie report on undergraduate colleges: November 2, 1986
• California vote on English as official language: November 4, 1986
• Reagan's statement on signing immigration bill: November 6, 1986
• Darman on corporate management: November 7, 1986
• U.S. Bishops' pastoral letter on economic justice: November 13, 1986
• Reagan administration on Iran arms deal and Contra funding: November 13 and 25, 1986
• HHS report on catastrophic illness expenses: November 19, 1986
• Philippine cease-fire agreement: November 27, 1986.
• December
• Reagan address on Iran arms shipments: December 6, 1986
• National research council report on teenage pregnancy: December 9, 1986
• Court on closed party primaries: December 10, 1986
• Wiesel Nobel Peace Prize speech: December 10, 1986
• Surgeon General's report on involuntary smoking: December 18, 1986
• Sakharov release from exile: December 28, 1986.

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ISBN

1-4833-0243-1

OCLC

875379772

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