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Washington's official celebration, echoed in festivals of light and countless other wassailings across the nation, was called the Christmas Pageant of Peace. Held on the Ellipse, a 52-acre circular park between the White House and the Washington Monument, it included not only the elaborately decorated national Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Christmases Past | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

The Union Carbide pesticide plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal looked as if it were being prepared for a war. All day long, giant Indian Air Force MI-8 helicopters swooped down into the area, while special Indian Army units trained in chemical warfare were airlifted to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Clouds of Uncertainty | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

Flixborough on Humberside, England, June 1, 1974. Britain's biggest peacetime explosion occurred at the Nypro (U.K.) Ltd. chemical plant when a pipe ruptured. The plant produced Caprolactum, which is woven into nylon. The blast killed 28 workers and leveled every building on the 60-acre site.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Catalog of Catastrophe | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

Just as worrisome to Californians as the location shooting is the multiplication of out-of-state production facilities. No longer does a producer have to return to Hollywood for editing and other postproduction work. New York City has vastly expanded the Kaufman Astoria Studios, where many silent films were shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Attack of the Alien States | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

The 158-acre area around the Korean truce village of Panmunjom has been a haven from gunfire, if not from violence, since the 1953 Korean armistice. But that record was shattered last week by a shootout over a Soviet defector in the Joint Security Area. An American G.I., Michael Burgoyne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Koreas: Bloodshed at a Peace Site | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

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