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...film also raises the prospect of computers overstepping their bounds, becoming the man-made monsters who eventually turn on their creators. Inside the system, the captured programs are told to free themselves from the shackles of their users, to abandon their "superstitious" belief that they exist only for humans. Dellinger, who designed MCP, eventually becomes its slave as the wayward program blackmails its master into helping take over the Kremlin and the Pentagon, no less...

Author: By Jacob M. Schiesinger, | Title: Video Drivel | 7/13/1982 | See Source »

...73rd annual convention in Boston last week, dismiss criticism that the association is currently lacking in originality or imagination. "We have made 73 years of progress using methods that are tried and true," insists Executive Director Benjamin Hooks, 56. "They are still good. We are not going to abandon them." Nonetheless, there is growing evidence that the organization's stand-pat approach is appealing less and less to the young, educated, middle-class blacks who should be providing it with new leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight Zone for the N.A.A.C.P. | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...Times Really Over, a litany of wistful memories from "back when the country was strong." The song yearns for a time "when a girl could still cook and still would." Those boys may not be able to get a hot meal on the table themselves, but they won't abandon without a fight their inalienable right to have it rustled up by the little woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long Till Equality? | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...sputtering pilot lights from the stoves the women were threatening to abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long Till Equality? | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...weak performance of Salvadoran infantrymen who had just returned from 14 weeks of training by U.S. 82nd Airborne Division instructors at Fort Bragg, N.C. Many of those troops were pinned down by the rebels in Morazan until the Dragonfly jets forced the guerrillas to abandon their positions. U.S. military advisers in El Salvador have been trying to persuade army troops to move in five-man patrols as they comb the countryside. Instead, the Salvadorans travel in vulnerable column formations along main roads. Says a frustrated U.S. aide in San Salvador: "The key to counterinsurgency is employing the same tactics that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Baptism of Fire | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

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