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...Long March toward basketball supremacy (apologies to Louisville and the Soviet Olympic squad) draws to an end, with dunks sandwiched between slapshots and short hoppers, the teams play maddeningly efficient hoop, tempered only by the chaotic last two minutes...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A National Bore | 4/25/1980 | See Source »

...ended the chaotic hearing for eleven suspected terrorists whose arrest, law-enforcement officials believe, broke the back of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (F.A.L.N.), a small, secretive and extremely violent group on the fringe of the tiny political movement for Puerto Rican independence. Since 1974 the F.A.L.N. has claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in Chicago, Miami, New York City, Washington and Puerto Rico, killing five people and injuring at least 70 others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hoping the Bombs Have Stopped | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...bright little guy, you catch things other people miss altogether. You look out of those eyes, and what do you see? A sick world... A chaotic world, spastic, anarchic, deity-deficient. People tell you you've got a future, but the only future you can count on starts six feet under...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: rry By Terry By Terry By Terry By | 4/10/1980 | See Source »

...knifing and chittering switchback turns at the course's top. He shot through them with a wildly debonair angling, self-assured, and then, as the course got straighter and rougher, he bounced several times violently for an instant as if he had lost everything, his limbs doing minute, chaotic leaps-roughly the effect of a man being electrocuted while descending on a roller coaster. Once or twice his ski tips flipped up anarchically for a nanosecond in the direction of his nose. With his strong, gyroscopic instincts, Stock disciplined those little apocalypses and hurtled on, his body tucked into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Only the Lake Was Placid | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...daring and dramatic deed. The cunning maneuver executed by Canadian diplomats in secreting six Americans in hostile Tehran for almost three months and then spiriting them to safety last week provided a heartening interlude in Washington's still unsuccessful struggle to free 50 hostages from their captors in chaotic Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Canada to the Rescue | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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