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The decline, confined thus far mostly to the Eastern states, is puzzling scientists from Maine to Alabama. The mysterious selective blight may merely signal shifts in local ecological balances. Or, say the scientists, it may be the start of a trend toward devastation that could eventually engulf the entire Eastern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Puzzling Holes in the Forest | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

To gather evidence of damage, the U.S. Forest Service each decade resurveys thousands of one-acre plots, checking the diameter and height of trees and looking for portents of new growth. The ongoing survey of Southern Piedmont woodlands shows that in the past ten years the growth rate of loblolly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Puzzling Holes in the Forest | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Camp authorities contended that they gained advance intelligence about the phony attack from the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, a claim that is hotly disputed by Coughlin & Co. In any case, insisted Base Commander Major General Donald J. Fulham, there is no way to secure completely a 110,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sneak Attack | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

Katrina slept through most of her adoption hearing last week in the sun-washed Charleston, S.C., courtroom. Her would-be mother and father sat nervously alert. An attractive, wealthy couple from out of state, they eagerly testified about their four-acre country estate, swimming pool and well-protected play area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newborn Fever | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

Solzhenitsyn, meanwhile, rarely strays from the 50-acre estate in rural Vermont that he bought eight years ago because it reminded him of his beloved Russia. How the author of the magisterial The Gulag Archipelago is faring as a creative writer is unknown. All the works he has published since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soviet Literature Goes West | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

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