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Duarte also deserves good grades for his handling of the military. He has taken his role as commander in chief seriously, visiting nearly all of the country's 18 major barracks and personally ordering the battalion attack that retook the Cerrón Grande dam after it was overrun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Darkness Before Dawn | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

Like all top athletes, Joan Benoit is accustomed to pain. But one day last March, more than halfway through a routine 20-mile run in Maine in preparation for the Olympic marathon, she felt a sharp stab on the outside of her right knee. Within the next mile, she recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Surgery Won Gold Medals | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Chebrikov: Well that clumsy fool took the bait, and he started an anti-Bok campaign, blasting the president for allowing, nay, even rejoicing in the fact that this man Womack was on the Harvard faculty. Buckley took that liberal goo-goo and his fuddy-duddy academic freedom to task, but...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Kremlin to Buckley, Come In | 8/14/1984 | See Source »

A far grislier terrorist act occurred on Thursday when a bomb, concealed in a suitcase, exploded at Meenambakham International Airport in Madras, India, killing at least 29 people and destroying the customs area. Madras airport authorities, accustomed to frequent bomb hoaxes, had tragically ignored three telephoned warnings. -By Janice Castro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Failed Security | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

The story began at the U.S. swim trials a month before, where John Moffet, accustomed to trailing home behind Veteran Steve Lundquist in the 100-meter breaststroke, not only beat the blond, gorgeously muscled Lunk, as Lundquist is called, but set a world record of 1:02.13. At the prelims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Tidal Wave off Winners | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

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