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Your article "Making Hostility a Media Event" [Aug. 29] insinuates that Der Spiegel has depicted the U.S. "as a nation of knee-jerk militarists and simultaneously has managed to find the Soviets flexible and reasonable." To support this vague assertion, you quote Der Spiegel on Yuri Andropov: "He has clearly engaged himself for peace." This quote, which is taken from Der Spiegel's published, abridged version of Andropov, a book by Russian Author and Dissident Zhores Medvedev, who lives in London, presupposes an editorial opinion of our magazine. The complete quote reads: "Signals that he [Andropov] has given...
...staunch union man, Cole stayed out on strike and on July 27 was fired for waving a hammer at a busload of strikebreakers. Imrich, a 21-year veteran, held out for 50 days, but on Aug. 21 he crossed the picket line and returned to work. The first time Beverly Cole saw Lolita Imrich after Joe went back, "I just looked at her and said, 'Lolita, you are now a scab,' " she told TIME Correspondent Robert C. Wurmstedt...
...phone call meant that Shamir, 67, would almost certainly succeed Menachem Begin, who announced on Aug. 28 that he planned to resign as Prime Minister of Israel. Shamir, who had been chosen to be leader of the Likud bloc when Begin stepped down, had managed to secure the support of all 64 members of Begin's outgoing coalition. Israeli law required Herzog to consult with representatives of parties in the Knesset, but there was never much doubt that he would ultimately ask Shamir to form the new government...
...risen more than 90 points from its low of 1163.06 on Aug. 8, thus upholding an old Wall Street tradition: the summer rally. Market analysts say last week's upswing was due largely to the growing belief that the Federal Reserve will now let interest rates fall slightly...
...Interior Secretary James Watt has been trying to sell frights to mine on federally controlled land. Environmentalists and some Western Governors and Democrats contend he will spur the mining of coal that the nation does not now need, at giveaway prices. On Aug. 3, a House committee voted to order Watt not to hold a sale of mining rights scheduled for last week. Under federal law, its vote should have been controlling. But the Supreme Court in June declared unconstitutional the procedure under which Congress delegates authority to the Executive Branch to perform certain acts while reserving the option...