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The professed purpose of the 600 women who began camping out on a 52-acre farm in the Finger Lakes region of New York State on July 4 was to protest the storage of nuclear weapons at the nearby Seneca Army Depot. Calling themselves the Women's Encampment for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Clash | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

Temistocles Ramirez de Arellano, 53, a wealthy U.S. citizen, cattle rancher and landowner in Honduras, thought he was doing the patriotic thing. In return for "fair compensation," he agreed on June 4 to turn over up to 2,000 acres of his 14,000-acre ranch, near Puerto Castilla, Honduras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backyard Base | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

Joan Clark is a petite woman who has said she is content with being a 19th century wife to a workaholic husband. When they attend formal dinners, Clark looks uncomfortable in his black tie and slightly dazzled by the famous personalities eager to engage him in small talk. He speaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man with the President's Ear | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

Reporters for Yomiuri Shimbun travel in the style that newspapermen elsewhere only think they should: in chauffeur-driven limousines adorned with the newspaper's red-and-white corporate flag. If a chauffeur exceeds the speed limit, no policeman is likely to issue a ticket; instead, a deferential officer may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The World's Biggest Newspaper | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

The Misawa family had lived in Nagano, which means long field, for a thousand years, most of the time as rice growers. After the war, in which he lost both brothers, Daimaru Misawa bought land inexpensively on the dry slope. He cleared mountain pine and, with other villagers, put in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Among the Roadside Gods:Touring the earth on which paths cross | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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