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...longstanding territorial argument. For more than a century, Guatemala has had its eye on Belize, a tiny neighbor that gained its independence from Britain eight months ago. Says a Guatemalan newspaper editor: "When the Argentines first went into the Falklands, a lot of people here were saying, 'Bravo, we should do the same thing and invade Belize.' But now, after watching the British these past few weeks, that feeling has changed to, 'Thank God we never tried.' " Meanwhile, at the United Nations most of the Caribbean countries were trying to keep a low profile...
They are keepers of the keys to the U.S. arsenal of last resort. Inside the briefcase are "sealed authenticators," envelopes containing a variety of alphabetical codes called release messages. A series of a dozen or so code words, like TANGO ECHO BRAVO ROMEO NOVEMBER, once transmitted by the President or his constitutionally designated successor through the White House Communications Agency to the Pentagon, would constitute an order to fire some combination of the nation's 9,480 strategic warheads, with a cumulative destructive force equivalent to 3,505 megatons (1 megaton = 1 million tons of TNT) at a preselected...
...other; the doubts cannot be dissolved; everyone is guessing. President Reagan, General Jones, the Air Force commander of an ICBM site, the pilot of a B-52, the skipper of a missile-launching sub?they all know what is supposed to happen when the President authorizes TANGO ECHO BRAVO ROMEO NOVEMBER; but no one knows what will happen next, or after that...
...BRAVO, which began in December 1980, was the first culture service. Owned by Cablevision Program Enterprises, BRAVO has 100,000 customers, who are spread across the U.S. and pay between $8 and $10 a month for the commercial-free service. Unlike CBS-C, which tailors most of its own productions to the size of the small screen, usually shooting in TV studios, BRAVO favors stage performances before live audiences. Recent presentations included jazz from Carnegie Hall with Eubie Blake and Herbie Hancock, a concert by the St. Louis Symphony and a backstage look at the New York City Opera with...
...Wilderness" is the cheekiest report TIME has written on Reagan. Bravo! After 200-plus days of presidential honeymoon and vacation it's time we turn the other cheek. As a small-business owner in a building construction-related field, I can't afford even a three-day vacation...