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Many Western countries, therefore, fear that if they do impose sanctions on South Africa, they will have to bail out the black nations struck by South African reprisals. The U.S. has already made it clear to the frontline states that it cannot compensate them for their possible losses. Britain, whose ties with southern Africa are even closer, has been still firmer. When Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe called for South African sanctions at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting last October, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher replied with a stern and stinging warning. "If you want to cut your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: A Boycott's Hidden Victims | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...punishment: "If I were to ever write a private-eye story, and try to make it as realistic as the stories I do write, what would he do? Private detectives don't do that much. You gather information in divorce cases, or spend a lot of time finding bail bondsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neither Tarnished Nor Afraid | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...Bail is told by an educated Indian woman who has thrown her prospects away on an idler named Rajee. She supports them both by working in a shop, while he makes imaginary business deals in coffee- houses and visits his mistress twice a week. Rajee is arrested for some unspecified offense; the woman's father, who sacrificed so that she might improve her standing in society, mourns loudly over the disastrous course she has chosen. She remembers instead how her father and Rajee agreed to her marriage after she had poured kerosene over her clothes and prepared to set herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tributes of Empathy and Grace Out of India | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...shortfalls. The United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven sheikdoms, has been politically weakened by the oil-price collapse. The federal government that binds the state together is virtually broke, and the two leading emirates, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, are reluctant to dip into their own shrunken treasuries to bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poor Little Energy-Rich Kids | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...which the smugglers consider expendable. Even a $450,000 Cessna twin-engine plane costs far less than the millions of dollars of cocaine it can carry. The latest stunt among cocaine pilots has been to air-drop a shipment of cocaine, then put the aircraft on automatic pilot and bail out. One pilot laden down with 79 lbs. of cocaine was killed last September in Tennessee when his parachute failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buried By a Tropical Snowstorm | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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