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...airplanes: "I wear them." That view is shared by TIME's National Political Correspondent, John Stacks, who has a mandate to range far and frequently to meet candidates and test political moods. In the past two months, Stacks has done extensive firsthand reporting on Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, California Governor Jerry Brown, Texas Republican George Bush and Reagan. He and Los Angeles Correspondent Joseph Kane collaborated on the profile and interview of the former actor and Governor that appear in the Nation section this week, on the occasion of Reagan's formal announcement of his candidacy...
...tolerate their torture or death. Says Thomas Ricks, an Iranian expert at Georgetown University: "Nothing in Islam could justify the slaughter of the hostages, and it is unthinkable that the captors would do so, unless they were threatened by an outside attack." Professor Hamid Algar of the University of California at Berkeley notes that the Shari'a permits both the exchange of hostages and their unilateral release by captors. He also observes, however, that "one tradition is that hostages may be kept permanently...
...military equipment. There are those who fault this policy not only with the traditionalist argument that we were kowtowing to rebels, but also on the ground that we were again misunderstanding Iranian society. Says Sepehr Zabith, a research associate at the Institutes of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley: "Each of the measures of accommodation that the U.S. took was viewed in Iran as a sign of weakness and of desperation. They served to embolden Khomeini, and the net result was that Khomeini was reinforced in his belief that he could impose his terms...
...Russia, eventually found a home here after his ouster by the Soviets. So did Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, South Korean Strongman Syngman Rhee, Cambodia's Marshal Lon Nol and Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista. South Viet Nam's former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, a resident of California, will be eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship next spring...
...Love Canal, 240 families had to be evacuated last year when state officials found enough dioxin buried beneath their homes to kill half the earth's population. Several other industrial dumpsites in New York may also be feeding the chemical into nearby rivers; and from Maine to Arkansas to California and Oregon, dioxin has left a trail of sickness, fetal miscarriages and death wherever it has entered the environment...