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The grim reality, however, is that even the skill and dedication of agents like Larry Buendorf cannot guarantee the safety of a political leader against the cunning of a psychopath who is determined to kill−and who knows, far better than Squeaky Fromme, how to operate a gun. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIOLENCE: THE GIRL WHO ALMOST KILLED FORD | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

The Russian and Chinese reactions to Ford remain ambiguous. U.S. allies, on the other hand, are relieved. Fearful at first that Ford would not measure up to the job, they now seem confident that he will provide sufficient leadership. Observes a senior official in the West German government: "Ford is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Ford in Command | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

Then we lick across the broadness of Nebraska--a monolonous, wide-butted stretch of sod. Smiling, broad curves traced in speed fling us onward, out between trucks that grind the air to a pulp and spit a back on us with 14 gears of churning cunning. Plunging to the depth...

Author: By Edmund Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, and an Elk Head | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

Like a lot of other things about New Orieans, the whole battle seems to border, if you think about it objectively, on the irrelevant. New Orleans has problems like other cities; perhaps not so much crime, but vast disparities in income and opportunity between the half of the city that...

Author: By Micholas Lemann, | Title: New Orleans, City of Dreams | 7/11/1975 | See Source »

After a day of waiting in Kampala, the two officers were transported by helicopter to meet Amin in Arua, his birthplace in northern Uganda. With typical cunning, Big Daddy was waiting for them in the gloom of a thatched hut whose entrance was so low that the British officers were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: The British Must Kneel at My Feet!' | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

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