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...with last week's defeat for the MX in the House, Weinberger has perhaps begun to show a willingness to compromise in order to save the missile altogether. Said a Government official: "Maybe the cold gray dawn of reality is finally coming to the Defense Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More a Ladle Than a Knife | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

Following a tip from an informant, law-enforcement officials in the small Massachusetts port town of Fairhaven tailed a tractor-trailer to Mullen's wharf earlier this month. As they watched, a 71-ft. fishing boat called Tiki X unloaded its cargo: 30 tons of pot. By dawn's light, police had arrested 26 men; all were later charged with drug trafficking and conspiracy to violate state narcotics laws. The next morning, about 400 miles southeast of Cape Cod, a Coast Guard cutter intercepted the Biscayne Freeze, a 240-ft. freighter registered in Panama. After firing five rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Pot Where It's Not as Hot | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...ponders the challenges facing modern Catholicism, Bernardin feels that the time has come for lay people to take more responsibility. During the course of a workday that begins with prayer before dawn and often runs past 10 at night, there is simply not enough time for Bernardin to be all things to all people. Associates say he is embarrassed because he cannot reply personally to the 25 speaking, social and religious invitations he receives each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Am Just a Symbol | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE.Calif: The space shuttle returned to Earth yesterday as a tried and true carrier of space cargo, its commander sculpting. "Yes sir, we deliver," With dawn's early light shining off the American flag un its side the shuttle cut through desert clouds to a centerline landing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Space Shuttle Concludes Its 'Fantastic Voyage' | 11/17/1982 | See Source »

...COULD HAVE been a fascinating combination of sleazy artistry. George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead), the Pittsburgh poet of zombie cannibalism, and Stephen King (Carrie, The Shining), the man who took horror out of the subconscious and put it back on America's supermarket shelves; one of the last of the true B movie filmmakers directing a screenplay by the foremost purveyor of mass paperback horror. Unfortunately, a potentially interesting juxtaposition fails. Romero's shock tactics end up being overwhelmed by King's schlock tactics, and the result, Creepshow, is certainly not worthy...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: The Horror, The Horror | 11/17/1982 | See Source »

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