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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strongly suggest that King harbored a strong sympathy for the Communist Party and its goals." Helms recalled that Robert Kennedy, during the Administration of his older brother, had authorized FBI wiretaps on King, and Helms told Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts that the Senator's "argument is with his dead brother who was President and his dead brother who was Attorney General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A National Holiday for King | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Suddenly, say eyewitnesses, truckloads of soldiers roared up and fired on the crowd, slaying more than a dozen people. In the resulting pandemonium, Bishop was led away at gunpoint. That night Radio Free Grenada announced the chilling news that he was dead. He had been executed along with five other officials by the "revolutionary armed forces" under the command of General Hudson Austin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grenada: Spice Island Power Play | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...Vladimir Lyakhov, rocketed aloft to go aboard last June. On Sept. 9, according to Western intelligence sources, the ship developed a leak in its propellant system that disabled half of its steering jets. Aviation Week & Space Technology quoted one U.S. space official as saying, "Salyut 7 is essentially dead in the water." Eighteen days later a Soyuz ferry ship loaded with a fresh crew and additional supplies exploded on the launch pad. The two cosmonauts escaped certain death by lifting off from the flaming launch site with a small escape rocket that let them drop down two miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Red Faces in the Cosmos | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...woeful bungalow ..." "Most villages and towns wore a pout of rejection." "None of this made the town of Portsmouth visibly interesting, because nothing could." "I saw that Dawlish was small and dull." "Every house was identical, and equally ugly." "I saw British people lying stiffly on the beach like dead in sects." "I came to hate Aberdeen more than any other place I saw." "Up close, Deny was frightful." "I decided that I had seen few places on earth more depressing than Strobane in the rain." "If I had only one word to describe the expression of Eng land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dodger | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...DEAD OF NIGHT 6:30 Three's Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Monsters Are Back at the Door | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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