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...break is always helpful," Benning said. "Without any rest, a lot of teams begin to burn out. When the playoffs roll around, we'll be peaking...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Beginning Again in the Garden | 1/30/1987 | See Source »

...invented. Reagan, for example, fondly remembers his Illinois childhood as "one of those rare Huck Finn-Tom Sawyer idylls." Wills, reared in the Midwest himself, knows the dark side of Twainiana, and he finds it in Tampico, Ill., one month after the Reagan family's arrival. HANG AND BURN THREE NEGROES read the headlines of the village paper. ROPE BREAKS PRECIPITATING VICTIM INTO BURNING EMBERS OF PYRE. So much for idylls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Somnipractor REAGAN'S AMERICA: INNOCENTS AT HOME | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said the case represents a "potentially serious set of intelligence losses." Among the duties assigned to the Marine guard, who served in Moscow from September 1984 until last March and then in Vienna until December, were checking empty offices for unsecured documents and disposing of "burn bags" containing classified material to be destroyed. Pentagon sources indicate that Lonetree not only provided the Soviets with secret papers but also told them the names of CIA personnel in the two embassies, detailed the work habits of the American staff members and sketched the layout of the Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Semper Fie | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...illustrate the continuing problem of security breaches by low-level personnel. Like Lonetree, Navy Yeoman Michael Walker, 24, convicted last year of sending classified material from the aircraft carrier Nimitz to his father, Soviet Spy John Walker, had easy access to sensitive documents: he too was on the burn-bag squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Semper Fie | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...violent radicals are not responding to calls for moderation. Notes Allister Sparks, a liberal South African journalist: "An element is emerging in the black townships of South Africa that is beyond anyone's control, an element so brutalized that it now seeks only to kill and burn in blind revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The War of Blacks Against Blacks | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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