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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reputations are not made of one or two incidents. They are the accumulation of many acts, big and small. Reagan's expanding foreign policy dossier includes decisions on the neutron bomb, Japanese auto imports, the Soviet grain embargo, arms to China. The Administration's domestic actions have also etched the Reagan image deeper in a number of ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Chip on His Shoulder | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...last of those assaults occurred on the morning of the sentencing. A bomb blast ripped up a section of rail line outside the coastal city of East London-one more sign that the ANC, which was outlawed in 1960, is trying harder than ever to induce a climate of terror among whites in the South African laager. From neighboring Zimbabwe, ANC Acting President Oliver Tambo, 63, served notice that such violence will increase. Said he: "South Africa is a highly developed industrialized state. A few determined guerrillas can do a lot of damage-and we have more than just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Terror and Repression | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...with the purchase of an aging trained bear called State O' Maine and a 1937 Indian motorcycle with sidecar. The seller is a vagabond named Freud, who after World War II lures Win into the Viennese hotel deal. The hapless entrepreneur is blinded by a radical's bomb and winds up at the third Hotel New Hampshire, in Maine, bought by his surviving children. Only the children do not have the heart to tell him that the resort has been turned into a rape crisis center; his life of illusion is thus lovingly preserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...left wing of the Social Democratic Party that was so quick last week to criticize the U.S. decision to make the neutron bomb looks for its inspiration to an old familiar figure who is happily playing a new role. Willy Brandt, 67, is suddenly back in the news, both at home and abroad-going to the Kremlin to discuss disarmament with Leonid Brezhnev, standing under the Arc de Triomphe at his friend Frangois Mitterrand's inauguration, initiating a North-South conference in Mexico in October that will be attended by President Reagan. Some West German politicians regard Brandt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Mild and Mellow | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...under Franklin Roosevelt, served as an assistant to Truman at the White House until 1953 and remained a close friend and confidant until the former President's death in 1972, helping with his memoirs. Noyes had a hand in such historic decisions as the building of the atom bomb, the firing of General Douglas MacArthur, the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency and the launching of the Marshall Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 24, 1981 | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

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