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...country on the brink of democracy, the announcement came as a troubling surprise. Without any forewarning, a terse official statement last week announced that Panamanian Vice President Jorge Illueca, 65, had been sworn in as President. In a televised address an hour later, Illueca delivered a speech intended to assure the citizens he would make no changes in government policy. Yet why had President Ricardo de la Espriella, 48, resigned? Mysteriously, official newspapers later made no mention of the resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama: Vanishing Act | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...Harold Sperlich first discussed building minivans in the mid-1970s, when both men were at Ford. It was not until 1978, after they had moved to Chrysler, that they got a chance to produce one. The $600 million project was risky, since Chrysler at the time was on the brink of bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Maxirush to Chrysler's Minivans | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...worst of all, we were on the brink of economic collapse." Then, in his prepared remarks, he proudly ticked off the accomplishments of three years: a stronger mili tary; lower inflation, taxes and interest rates; falling unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There He Goes Again: Reagan Will Run | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Frustration over such defeats drove Stockman to the brink of insubordination. In an interview in FORTUNE, he castigated "dreamers, including some in the Administration," who think the deficit can be sharply reduced by spending cuts. He derided the idea that "there are vast pockets of fraud, waste and abuse out there" that could be eliminated painlessly. The clear implication was that taxes must be raised. Though his comments were reminiscent of those he made to the Atlantic in 1981, which sent him to Reagan's "woodshed" and nearly cost him his job, the Administration this time shrugged off Stockman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan Gets Ready | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...achievements to the magazine. Newsweek produced a special issue in February that looked at 50 years of U.S. history through the lives of five ordinary families in Springfield, Ohio, and stretched the newsmagazine concept with a 25-page special report on a killer's road to the brink of execution. Broyles successfully sought to have stories be more "rooted" in the nation's basic concerns, a concept he expressed by using the word America, in some form, 14 times on twelve covers in 1983. Broyles, says a Washington correspondent, "won support for his idea that the news grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newsweek's Outsider Bows Out | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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