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...plan, and some of Gemayel's Lebanese enemies dismissed it as too little, too late. In Damascus, Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt insisted that Gemayel must not only resign but be put on trial for "crimes against the Lebanese people." On the other hand, Syria, which is helping to arm Gemayel's foes, is believed amenable to letting the President stay on, and it invited a revised plan which the Saudis proposed and conveyed to Beirut. If Gemayel does cling to office, it may be as the figurehead leader of a drastically reshaped government heavily influenced by Syria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failure of a Flawed Policy | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...such observations are both the meat and the bones of Kremlinology?that Chernenko seemed to breathe at least three times as often as his neighbor on the reviewing stand, Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 75. Later, the new General Secretary was seen to be barely able to keep his arm raised in a salute as crack Soviet troops marched past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko: Moving to Center Stage | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...blue eyes, thin nose and mobile mouth. Ah, that mouth... But he stopped talking for at least 1 min. 45:59 sec. last week. Starting sixth, wearing tasteful white-and-peach candy stripes, he took a great gulp of air, lunged out on his poles and launched himself on arm power down the 51° chute that plunges through the restaurant built atop Bjelašnica to give the downhill run the required 800-meter drop. He dropped into a textbook aerodynamic tuck, fists together in front of his face, helmet down, back parallel to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The High and Mighty | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...begun to shed his personal reserve and warm to the task. After watching him leap up from his lunch to table-hop at Newick's restaurant in Newington, N.H., Hart's state coordinator, Jeanne Shaheen, smiled, "A month ago, we'd have to have twisted his arm before he'd do that." Lacking the cash to buy a word processor, his campaign is sending follow-up letters written in longhand. Volunteers have mailed out 30,000, and expect to post 20,000 more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tie That May Tightly Bind | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Under the controversial directive federal employees with security clear attics would face random he detector tests and lifelong censorship According to the General Accounting Office the investigative arm of Congress that category involves some 2.5 million individuals almost halt of detail workers an additional 1.5 million civilian contractors with security would undergo similar surveillance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speak No Evil | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

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