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With his cavalry riding crop, peppery General of Division José Hernández Toledo, 55, taps at a map of the near-unpenetrable 35,000-sq.-mi. area that his troops intend to cover during the next four months. He outlines their objective in bluntest terms: "I will stay here until I have completed the mission my President gave me-rid the mountains of this curse." Adds an aide: "You had better advise New York that Mexican Brown is going to be in short supply from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Sierra Madre's Amapola War | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

Last week, after his latest speech in bluntest English, insistent Enoch, 64, sent gorges rising again. Speaking to a group of Young Conservatives, he let loose on his favorite topic: there are too many "coloreds" in Britain. This, he predicted, would produce "eventual conflict on a scale which cannot adequately be described by any lesser term than civil war." Warming up to the war metaphor, Powell called skin color "a permanent and involuntary uniform which performs ... the functions of a uniform in warfare, distinguishing one side from the other, friend and foe, making it possible to see at a glance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES: Belt Up, You Big Bore | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...bluntest language yet by the Ford Administration about Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Untrustworthy Custodian? | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

Protestant extremists in Northern Ireland sometimes threaten that the province might some day follow Rhodesia's example and make a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain. Last week, on a two-day tour of Ulster, British Prime Minister Edward Heath warned of the consequences in the bluntest possible terms. Such an attempt not only would bring about a bloodbath, he said, but if it succeeded, Britain would not pay the new nation "one penny" of the $500 million that it now subsidizes the province with annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Not One Penny | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...painfully on the screen. Not only are the interiors of all the rooms red, but whole scenes are periodically suffused in crimson hues. "Don't ask me why it's to be that way, because I can't tell you," Bergman writes in his screenplay. "The bluntest and also most tenable [explanation] is probably that the whole thing is internal, and ever since childhood I have imagined the soul to be a damp membrane in varying shades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mellowed Bergman | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

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