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That joke involves an element of true confession. The fact is that Arok isn't too bright. Without close and constant supervision, Arok would gladly vacuum the dog, pour the coffee on the rug or puree the goldfish in the Cuisinart. "For me to say that he saves me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: A Better Robot? | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Charged with Thorpe last week were David Holmes, 46, a Manchester financial consultant and former deputy treasurer of the Liberals, and George Deakin, 35, and John Le Mesurier, 44, both business associates of Holmes'. All four had been under investigation since October 1977, following the public confession by a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Dark Episode | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Undaunted by the world outcry against the trials and convictions of Anatoli Shcharansky and two other Soviet dissidents, Moscow last week moved to silence another human rights activist. Attorney Lev Lukyanenko, 50, went on trial in the small Ukrainian town of Gorodnya near Kiev on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Human Rights on Trial (Contd.) | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

The two accused American newsmen passed up their own trial; a movie projector sat where defendants normally do in the seedy Moscow courtroom. While Craig Whitney of the New York Times and Harold Piper of the Baltimore Sun vacationed in the U.S. last week, Soviet Judge Lev Almazov ruled that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Nothing to Retract | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

The newsmen chose to protect their sources rather than respond in person to charges they dismissed as meritless. But the prosecutor used the trial to blast the "bourgeois" press for pouring "barrels of black paint on a foreign country." And the dissident in question, convicted Georgian Nationalist Zviad Gamsakhurdia, duly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Nothing to Retract | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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