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That's unfortunate, because Energy and Security deserves very serious consideration. Its 14 contributors-all energy and foreign policy experts-assail current energy policies as unwise and even counterproductive and see dire results for national security and world peace if the U.S. fails to revamp its strategies...
...wish Nancy could develop a sense of humor about this great adventure, instead of a sense of burden." The burden will be heavy: she not only will endure relentless scrutiny, but her closeness to her husband means that his worries will be hers as well. When these pressures assail her, the public will probably be none the wiser. "If I have a certain core inside of me that is private, it stays private," she told TIME. Life in the national fishbowl will no doubt test that resolve to its fullest. Given her character, drive and record of success thus...
...travel agents. These importunations prevailed enough to draw 3500 delegates to Manila, which had taken two years to prepare for the event. The dictator wrapped the visitors in an imposing cloak of security, giving an impression of impenetrability. The delegates packed the convention hall to hear Marcos assail the Western press for exaggerating his problems and ask his visitors to take stock of Manila as evidence of its peacefulness. But moments after Marcos finished his speech, a bomb went off 20 rows away, exploding the facade of control he had tried to hard to project. While...
...endless round of cover-ups, tricks, juggling of the daily calendar, and the need to buy "useless and expensive presents" for two women at once. Now the Pope has removed all these woes because "you can have infidelity in your own house." Meanwhile, Italian feminists, ever ready to assail the Vatican, accused John Paul of male chauvinism because he spoke only of men lusting after women and not the reverse...
...auto-parts-company millionaire and former city councilman, is the candidate of Eddie Chiles, 70, a colorful self-made oil baron and major stockholder in the Texas Rangers baseball team. Chiles has achieved notoriety by sponsoring "I'm mad" TV ads from New Mexico to Montana that assail Government bureaucracy and liberalism. Chiles once supported Wright, but now says of him: "Jim Wright is a socialist. We had a parting of ways. One day I told him I was going to beat him and get him out of Congress." Responds Wright: "Maybe he feels a guy who owns...