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And indeed they are written for the true believer, for they admit of no possible party flaw. If there are national problems, those are the fault of the other party, which is castigated at length. As Finley Peter Dunne's fictional commentator Mr. Dooley noted of a practiced platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Marketable Baskets of Issues | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

ALAN DERSHOWITZ and JEANNE BAKER--Ladies and Gentlemen, the greatest first amendment lawyer in the world and his faithful sidekick. Dershowitz fits every stereotype--He's brilliant ("the youngest professor ever appointed to the Law School Faculty" the appositizers faithfully call him). He overflows with flair (his first involvement with...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Strange Case of the Cleared Throat | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

Logically, in light of the previous week's assassination attempt against former Prime Minister Bakhtiar in a Paris suburb, the Washington slaying aroused speculation that the long arm of revolutionary vengeance had reached all the way from Iran. Police officials, so far, have no concrete evidence to link the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Killing One's Enemies | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

Evans has been on the long march with Ronald Reagan almost from the beginning. She had never thought much about him-cannot even recall seeing one of his movies-until 1964 when he went on national TV to raise money for Barry Goldwater's slumping presidential campaign. Reagan spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Long March | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

Few Soviets accept Solzhenitsyn's messianic vision of a Russia straining against its chains, yearning for some spiritual revolution that will throw off Communist rule and replace it at least temporarily with an ill-defined "authoritarian order founded on love of one's fellowman." The Soviet Union's other giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The U.S.S.R.: A Fortress State in Transition | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

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