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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...units this year. The revolution has touched all those involved in preparing the cover package. "A new video store seems to open every month in a New York neighborhood," says Ainslie. "Some of them even deliver." New York Correspondent Barry Kalb, an avowed movie freak, bought his VCR to catch up on all the films he missed during nine years as a foreign correspondent. "In Hong Kong, where we lived from 1975 through 1978," he says, "no movie that didn't feature large amounts of action and violence played in local theaters for long, if at all. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 24, 1984 | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...murder of a man who helped rescue her, had fled the frigid region before the onset of winter. But not Sheriff Johnny France, who had attended the same high school as the elder Nichols. "I'm a mountain man too," he insisted. "It will take one to catch one. I'll get them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fugitives: Coming In from the Cold | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...that some of the hijackers probably slipped on board. Security officials at Dubai International Airport had spent a busy night ensuring that Britain's Princess Anne departed safely after her three-day visit to the gulf. So they were not overly thorough in checking passengers hurrying through to catch the plane to Karachi, which was leaving at about the same time as the royal flight. Several youths in their 20s who had arrived on a connecting flight from Beirut evidently managed to bypass a security check in the transit lounge and went directly to the departure gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Horror Abroad Flight 221 | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...foul line," said Duncan, "there's not any team that can catch...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Cagers Outhustle Manhattan, 56-51 | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...prospect of one side more or less safe while the other side is open to attack is untenable in the nuclear age. Moreover, in the absence of a new bargain with the Soviets, such a situation is bound to be relatively short-lived. Sooner or later the Soviets can catch up with American technology, the most notable example being multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVS). But this does not mean that development of a defensive system should be banned independently of what is done about nuclear weapons in general. The Soviets seem genuinely afraid of a technological race with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Reagan II: A Foreign Policy Consensus? | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

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