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1) The present NATO deployment of five American divisions and supporting air and naval forces evolved in the 1950s, when NATO's doctrine was massive retaliation?to react to aggression with an immediate and overwhelming nuclear blow against Soviet territory. Massive retaliation paradoxically required that the total forces on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plan to Reshape NATO | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

On Central America and Cuba: We are living in a rapidly changing world. None of the earlier epochs has known such sweeping and dynamic changes. Social change is literally knocking at the doors of the most ossified tyrannical regimes before our very eyes. In Latin America this is evidenced conclusively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Radiant Future: Konstantin Chernenko Book | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Although nearly 20 years have passed since the violence and revolution of the 1960s engulfed one of the most dynamic leaders of Black consciousness, change has been slow to come in America. Racism persists and even after the civil rights legislation of the '60s, Blacks could be said to live...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: The Legacy of Malcolm X | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Splendidly white in the morning sun, it looked like a great migratory bird returning to its winter haunts. Indeed, as Challenger appeared out of the blue Florida skies at week's end, it was truly coming home. Touching gently down on the Kennedy Space Center's long concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Orbiting with Flash and Buck | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

With The Obscene Bird of Night (1973), his fourth book, Chilean Author José Donoso joined the front ranks of South American fabulists. His sprawling novel not only housed more grotesques than a whole rack of Gothic thrillers; it also offered a narrator who pretended to be a deaf-mute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imaginative Enchantments | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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