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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher protested the mining in the strongest terms to Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., who was in London. Privately, her ministers explained that they fear Reagan is heading toward a showdown with the Sandinistas that will make it all the harder to justify U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explosion over Nicaragua | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

In one sense that may be true. But such talk of a unified Germany, however vaguely expressed, still causes anxiety on a continent where the war sis all too clearly remembered. Says Bishop Albrecht Schönherr, who was the leader of the East German Lutheran Church until he retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Bridge over an Infamous Wall | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

The finale of the shuttle's eleventh and most ambitious mission was supposed to have taken place at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, site of the launch. But just as Shuttle Commander Bob Crippen and his crew prepared to descend from orbit and end their seven-day, more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Capturing an Errant Satellite | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

Half of the book is devoted to a general discussion of torture, and half to a country-by-country breakdown of the cases investigated by Al. Perhaps the most immediately shocking fact is a statistic, more than 90 countries in the world routinely practice torture, according to the study. These...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Battling Brutal Regimes | 4/14/1984 | See Source »

Touré was making plans for the 20th anniversary meeting of the Organization of African Unity, to be held in Conakry next month, when he was flown to the Cleveland Clinic Hospital last week. He died on the operating table after undergoing 5½ hours of surgery for a heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guinea: Fierce Patriot | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

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