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...overthrow the Sandinista government. Chamorro, who carried out his mission from exile in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Key Biscayne, Fla., revealed that he had been picked for his job by the CIA. The agency, he disclosed, had printed training manuals instructing the guerrillas in such activities as assassination, kidnaping and blackmail. For that revelation he was ejected from the contras. Now the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service wants to expel Chamorro from the country. Two weeks ago, the New York Times printed an op-ed article by Chamorro in which he criticized the Reagan Administration's policies toward Nicaragua and congressional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: A Rebel Outstays His Welcome | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Mark Snyder insisted that Laura's story was "a bunch of garbage." He denied having known of her father's spying or having made any blackmail threats. He contended that Laura knew of Christopher's whereabouts and had been free to visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spy's Unhappy Household | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...frequently attacked Papandreou for failing to remove four U.S. military bases from Greece (the leases for the facilities, which are important for NATO's Mediterranean defense, come up for renewal in December 1988). Papandreou's triumph guaranteed that, as a French analyst put it, "there can be no Communist blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece the Gadfly Stays in Office | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...cautionary tale told by David Rosenbaum, an independent nuclear analyst in Washington, is about blackmail on a huge and frightening scale. A terrorist group manages to construct a nuclear weapon and uses it to blast the top off a peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The President is then told that other bombs have been planted in three U.S. cities and will be detonated unless he agrees to their terms: a total overseas troop withdrawal, an annual donation of $50 billion for Third World projects and the release of all black and Hispanic prisoners. It sounds like the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backpack Nuke | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...sidesteps nor wallows in these homilies; it is notable mostly for the bathetic excesses it avoids. So is Peter Bogdanovich's directorial touch. Bogdanovich may be the last and finest avatar of the classic Hollywood style; discreet tracking shots, invisible editing, no camerabatics, no teary close- ups for emotional blackmail. Nobody is trying to make a masterpiece here. Mask has a sturdy, disposable feel to it, like the tissues moviegoers are advised to bring with them when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revenge of the Male Weepie: MASK | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

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