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...China: Alive in the Bitter Sea shifts from one snippet of life to another, Butterfield's sad image of the country becomes clearer. But the book is far from disjointed. Each anecdote of woe, each unfortunate experience, each tale of persecution fleshes out Butterfield's vision of official happy China's less appealing underside. More importantly, several significant themes reverberate throughout the work and color the reader's perceptions of this mammoth country...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: A Bitter Sea | 5/26/1982 | See Source »

...significant foreign intelligence" operations. Inman did not publicly object to this domestic CIA role, but he did oppose giving the CIA a free hand in the types of activities it could probe and the methods it could use. Largely because of his efforts, the order was tightened to put clearer limits on what the CIA could do at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanishing Act by a Popular Spook | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...CLEARER TOXIC-SHOCK VERDICT

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs: May 3, 1982 | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...Rely litigation to reach trial produced a baffling jury verdict March 19 in Denver: the company was found negligent, but the victim, who survived, won no money for her illness or her claims of psychological damage. Lawyers bringing some 400 other suits against Procter & Gamble were cheered by the clearer outcome in Cedar Rapids. Said Plaintiff Michael Kehm: "I hope it's a benefit to other victims and families who have suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs: May 3, 1982 | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...probably no accident that the Christian Broadcasting Network's over-the-air and cable services rely heavily on wholly secular reruns from the self-confident and squeaky-clean '50s. Adults are likely to be wistful, and children intrigued, about a time when society's rules were clearer and conformity with them more satisfying-and when, as awestruck viewers of The Millionaire (1955-60) have learned, a dollar was really a dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Ricky, Riley, Edith and Maude | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

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